Study of the catalyst evolution during annealing preceding the growth of carbon nanotubes by microwave plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition

Nanotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 45, 2007, Pages

  Malesevic, Alexander ^a,b   Chen, Hong ^a   Hauffman, Tom ^c   Vanhulsel, Annick ^a   Terryn, Herman ^c   Haesendonck, Chris Van ^b  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BUFFER LAYERS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CATALYST EVOLUTION; PLASMA TREATMENT;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; HYDROGEN; NANOPARTICLE; NICKEL; SILICATE;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL ANALYSIS; VAPOR; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 36048969221     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/18/45/455602     Document Type: Article

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