Clustering of aromatic rings in near-frictionless hydrogenated amorphous carbon films probed using multiwavelength Raman spectroscopy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 21, 2007, Pages

  Arenal, R ^a,b   Liu, A C Y ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CARBON; FRICTION; PHONONS; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; WAVELENGTH;

AROMATIC RINGS; RING CLUSTERS; TOPOLOGICAL ORDERS;

CARBON FILMS;

EID: 36349009207     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2805189     Document Type: Article

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