In situ monitoring of the acetylene decomposition and gas temperature at reaction conditions for the deposition of carbon nanotubes using linear Raman scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 18223-18228

  Reinhold López, Karla ^a   Braeuer, Andreas ^a   Popovska, Nadejda ^a   Leipertz, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; LIGHTING; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ACETYLENE DECOMPOSITION; CATALYTIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COMPOSITION MEASUREMENTS; EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION; EXOTHERMIC DECOMPOSITION; GAS TEMPERATURE; GASPHASE; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MONITORING; INCIDENT FLOW; NEW STRATEGY; RAMAN SPECTRA; REACTION CONDITIONS; REACTION MECHANISM; SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATIONS;

GASES;

ACETYLENE; CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER; TEMPERATURE;

ACETYLENE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASES; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77956370134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018223     Document Type: Article

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