Room-temperature growth and applications of carbon nanofibers: A review

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 587-593

  Tanemura, Masaki ^a   Okita, Tatsuhiko ^a   Tanaka, Junya ^a   Kitazawa, Masashi ^b   Itoh, Kyosuke ^a   Miao, Lei ^a   Tanemura, Sakae ^a   Lau, Shu Ping ^c   Yang, Hui Ying ^c   Huang, Lei ^c  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OLYMPUS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Carbon nanofibers; Field electron emission; Room temperature growth; Scanning probe microscope (SPM); Sputtering

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; ELECTRON EMISSION; ION BOMBARDMENT; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH;

FIELD ELECTRON EMISSION; NANOMATERIALS; ROOM-TEMPERATURE GROWTH; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE (SPM);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33748996816     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2006.880428     Document Type: Review

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