Calculations of Constant-Height STM Images of Fullerene C₆₀ Adsorbed onto a Surface

Figure 2

The electron densities and STM simulations for hexagon-prone C₆₀. (a) The electron densities obtained from the symmetry-adapted HMOs for HOMO, LUMO, LUMO + 1, LUMO + 2, LUMO + 3, and combined LUMO + 2 and 3. (b) Constant-height STM simulations of the orbitals in (a). (c) The irreps. of the split components of each manifold when the surface interaction has symmetry.