Plasma-controlled adatom delivery and (re)distribution: Enabling uninterrupted, low-temperature growth of ultralong vertically aligned single walled carbon nanotubes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 26, 2008, Pages

  Tam, Eugene ^a   Ostrikov, Kostya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ATOMS; CONTROLLED DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; GAS SYSTEMS; NANOTUBE SURFACES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; PLASMAS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 58149247758     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3058766     Document Type: Article

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