Growth regimes and metal enhanced 6-fold ring clustering of carbon in carbon-nickel composite thin films

Carbon

Volumn 45, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 2995-3006

  Abrasonis, G ^a   Krause, M ^a   Mucklich A ^a   Sedlackova K ^b   Radnoczi G ^b   Kreissig, U ^a   Kolitsch, A ^a   Moller W ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILM GROWTH; NANOPARTICLES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPUTTERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CO-SPUTTERING; COMPOSITE THIN FILMS; NANOPARTICLE SIZE;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 36549067752     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2007.09.044     Document Type: Article

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