Adsorption and migration of carbon adatoms on zigzag carbon nanotubes

Carbon

Volumn 42, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 1021-1025

  Krasheninnikov, A V ^a   Nordlund, K ^a   Lehtinen, P O ^b   Foster, A S ^b   Ayuela, A ^b   Nieminen, R M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Defect annealing; Electron irradiation; Ion irradiation

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ANISOTROPY; ANNEALING; ELECTRON IRRADIATION; GROWTH (MATERIALS); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ADATOMS; AMORPHOUS CARBON; DEFECT ANNEALING; ION IRRADIATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 2342635953     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2003.12.025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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