Abstract
Macroscopic quantities of fullerenes were synthesized by ablation of a graphite rod heated with a cw-Nd:YAG laser in Ar gas flow. The ablation was carried out by irradiation of fundamental, second, and third harmonic light emitted from a pulsed-Nd:YAG laser. It was necessary to heat the graphite rod up to a higher temperature than 700 °C for producing macroscopic quantities of fullerenes. The amount of ablation, the fullerene yield and the relative fullerene yield increased with increasing temperature of graphite. The fullerpne yields depended on the pressure of Ar buffer gas as well, in which the j ablation plume was formed, and an optimum pressure range was found to be 53–80 kPa. Relatively high yield of C70 was obtained by ablation method under these conditions.
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