Growth of highly-quality single-wall carbon nanotubes without amorphous carbon formation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 269-271

  Lacerda, R G ^a   Teh, A S ^a   Yang, M H ^a   Teo, K B K ^a   Rupesinghe, N L ^a   Dalal, S H ^a   Koziol, K K K ^a   Roy, D ^a   Amaratunga, G A J ^a   Milne, W I ^a   Chhowalla, M ^b   Hasko, D G ^c   Wyczisk, F ^d   Legagneux, P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; GRAIN GROWTH; IRON; MOLYBDENUM; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SILICON; THIN FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; CRYSTALLINITY; SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBE;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0842290098     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1639509     Document Type: Article

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