Fast characterization of magnetic impurities in single-walled carbon nanotubes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 4601-4603

  Chen, Feng ^a   Xue, Yuyi ^a   Hadjiev, Viktor G ^a   Chu, C W ^a,c,d   Nikolaev, Pasha ^b   Arepalli, Sivaram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; IMPURITIES; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REMANENCE; SQUIDS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

INTERPARTICLE INTERACTIONS; MAGNETIC IMPURITIES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY MEASUREMENTS; SATURATION MAGNETIC MOMENT; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0347477188     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1630854     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. S. Iijima, Nature (London) 354, 56 (1991).
2. R. M. Bozorth, Ferromagnetism (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 1993) pp. 830, 871.
3. M. Respaud, J. Appl. Phys. 86, 556 (1999).
4. P. Allia, M. Coisson, P. Tiberto, F. Vinai, M. Knobel, M. A. Novak, and W. C. Nunes, Phys. Rev. B 64, 144420 (1999).
5. P. Nikolaev, M. J. Bronikowski, R. K. Bradley, F. Rohmund, D. T. Colbert, K. A. Smith, and R. E. Smalley, Chem. Phys. Lett. 313, 91 (1999).
6. M. J. Bronikowski, P. A. Willis, D. T. Colbert, K. A. Smith, and R. E. Smalley J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 19, 1800 (2001).
7. I. W. Chiang, B. E. Brinson, A. Y. Huang, P. A. Willis, M. J. Brownikowski, J. L. Margrave, R. E. Smalley, and R. H. Hauge, J. Phys. Chem. B 105, 8297 (2001).
8. J.-M. Bonard, S. Seraphin, J.-E. Wegrowe, J. Jiao, and A. Chatelain, Chem. Phys. Lett. 343, 251 (2001).
9. M. Respaud, J. M. Broto, H. Rakoto, and A. R. Fert, Phys. Rev. B 57, 2925 (1998).
10. M. L. Billas, A. Chatelain, and W. A. de Heer, Science 265, 1682 (1994).
11. American Institute of Physics Handbook, 3rd ed., edited by D. N. Fischel, H. B. Crawford, D. A. Douglas, and W. C. Eisler (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1972).
12. bulk differs by four times, we can determine the percentage of the catalyst impurities with high sensitivity, with relative uncertainty of -50% to +100%.
13. For example, TGA requires at least three runs with 2-3 mg specimens, and becomes unreliable for samples with very low iron content due to baseline drift.