Fullerene (C60) decoration in oxygen plasma treated multiwalled carbon nanotubes for photovoltaic application

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Kalita, Golap ^a   Adhikari, Sudip ^a   Aryal, Hare Ram ^a   Umeno, Masayoshi ^a   Afre, Rakesh ^b   Soga, Tetsuo ^b   Sharon, Maheshwar ^c  

^a CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c BIRLA COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PLASMA THEORY; THERMAL EVAPORATION;

OXYGEN PLASMA TREATMENT; POWER CONVERSION;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 39349097103     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2844881     Document Type: Article

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