The diffusion of carbon atoms inside carbon nanotubes

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Yanjie, Gan ^a   Kotakoski, J ^b,c   Krasheninnikov, A V ^b,d   Nordlund, K ^b   Banhart, F ^a,e  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE ET CHIMIE DES MATÉRIAUX DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; CARBON; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON IRRADIATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; IRRADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PIPELINES; RADIATION; SEPARATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON ATOMS; CUTTING SPEEDS; EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION; FOCUSED ELECTRON-BEAM (FEB); HIGH MOBILITY; INTERSTITIAL ATOMS; INTERSTITIAL CARBON ATOMS; IRRADIATION DOSES; IRRADIATION EXPERIMENTS; KINETIC MONTE CARLO (KMC) SIMULATIONS; MIGRATION BARRIERS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCNTS); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (TEM); TRAPPED ATOMS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 45849115782     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/2/023022     Document Type: Article

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