In situ optical emission study on the role of C2 in the synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Motaung, David Edmond ^a,b   Moodley, Mathew Kisten ^a,c   Manikandan, E ^a   Coville, Neil J ^c  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION PROCESS; ADIABATIC EXPANSION; ARGON GAS; ELECTRON DENSITIES; EMISSION INTENSITY; EMISSION PEAKS; FOCUSED LASER PULSE; FURNACE TEMPERATURES; GAS FLOWS; GRAPHITE COMPOSITES; IN-SITU; LASER INDUCED PLASMA; OPTICAL EMISSIONS; Q SWITCHED ND:YAG LASER; QUARTZ TUBES; RAPID NUCLEATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIORS; STARK BROADENINGS; STOICHIOMETRIC COMPOSITIONS; SWAN BAND;

ARGON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; ELECTRON TUBES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FURNACES; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDE MINERALS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; QUARTZ; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); YTTRIUM;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 77749277332     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3311563     Document Type: Article

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