Fabrication of aligned carbon nanotubes on Cu catalyst by dc plasma-enhanced catalytic decomposition

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 255, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 6404-6407

  Zhang, Zhejuan ^a   Shakerzadeh, Maziar ^b   Tay, BengKang ^b   Li, Xiaocheng ^b   Tan, Chongwei ^b   Lin, LiFeng ^a   Guo, Pingsheng ^a   Feng, Tao ^a   Sun, Zhuo ^a  

^a East China Normal University   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aligned CNTs; Cooper catalyst; DC PECVD

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METALLIC FILMS; NANOCATALYSTS; PLASMA CVD; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YARN;

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; ALIGNED CNTS; CATALYTIC DECOMPOSITION; COATED SUBSTRATES; DEPOSITION TIME; GRAPHITIC ORDER; NOVEL CATALYSTS; SI (100) SUBSTRATE;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 62349088049     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2009.02.025     Document Type: Article

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