Thin Glassy Carbon Coating for Protection Against Oxygen Penetration into the C 60 Fullerite E. A. Katz, 1, * A. I. Shames, 2 and E. Prilutskiy 3 1 Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer, Israel 2 Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel 3 Institute for Problems of Materials Science, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine ABSTRACT Protection of fullerites against oxygen penetration is one of the main challenges for a fabrication of fullerene-based electronic devices. In this article, we report on an experimental evidence for such a protection using 187 DOI: 10.1081/FST-120027155 1536-383X (Print); 1536-4046 (Online) Copyright # 2004 by Marcel Dekker, Inc. www.dekker.com * Correspondence: E. A. Katz, Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer 84990, Israel; Fax: þ 972 8 659 67 36; E-mail: keugene@bgumail. bgu.ac.il. FULLERENES, NANOTUBES, AND CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES Vol. 12, Nos. 1 & 2, pp. 187–191, 2004