Fabrication and orientation control of diamond nanotips by broad ion beam etching

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Tang, Y ^a   Li, Y S ^a   Yang, Q ^a   Hirose, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE-DEPENDENT; APEX ANGLES; AS-GROWN; DIAMOND NANOTIPS; DIAMOND THIN FILM; ION BEAM ETCHING; ION BEAM SOURCE; NANOMETRES; NEAR-EDGE X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTRUM; ORIENTATION CONTROL; PEAK INTENSITY; RAMAN SPECTRUM; SURFACE LAYERS; WELL-ALIGNED;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; ETCHING; ION BEAMS; ION BOMBARDMENT; IONS; NANOTIPS; PHOTODEGRADATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; THIN FILMS;

DIAMONDS;

EID: 77949716006     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/43/13/135301     Document Type: Article

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