Freestanding vertically oriented single-walled carbon nanotubes synthesized using microwave plasma-enhanced CVD

Carbon

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 2758-2763

  Maschmann, Matthew R ^a   Amama, Placidus B ^a   Goyal, Amit ^b   Iqbal, Zafar ^b   Fisher, Timothy S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Plasma deposition; Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; ELECTRIC FIELDS; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

HYDROGEN IONS; NEGATIVE SUBSTRATE BIAS; PLASMA DEPOSITION; SPATIAL DENSITY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33747810079     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2006.03.040     Document Type: Article

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