On-substrate growth of single-walled carbon nanotube networks by an "all-laser" processing route

Carbon

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2795-2808

  Aissa B ^a   Therriault, D ^b   El Khakani, M A ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MATERIAL; CATALYST NANOPARTICLE; CONTROLLED GROWTH; CONVENTIONAL LASERS; GRAPHITE TARGET; GROWTH MECHANISMS; GROWTH PARAMETERS; METAL CATALYST; PROCESS LATITUDES; PROCESSING ROUTE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SINGLE-WALLED; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE NETWORKS; SURFACE DENSITY; THERMOGRAVIMETRY ANALYSIS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CATALYSTS; GRAPHITE; KRYPTON; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SUBSTRATES; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 79953792272     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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