Nucleation and growth of carbon nanotubes by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 2767-2769

  Bower, Chris ^a   Zhou, Otto ^a,c   Zhu, Wei ^b   Werder, D J ^b   Jin, Sungho ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b Applied and Materials Sciences   (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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EID: 0001692228     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1319529     Document Type: Article

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