Characterization of ion-irradiation-induced defects in multi-walled carbon nanotubes

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lehtinen, Ossi ^a   Nikitin, Timur ^a   Krasheninnikov, Arkady V ^a,b   Sun, Litao ^c   Banhart, Florian ^d   Khriachtchev, Leonid ^a   Keinonen, Juhani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c Southeast University   (China)

^d INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE ET CHIMIE DES MATÉRIAUX DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY COLLISION APPROXIMATIONS; BULK MATERIALS; CARBON ONIONS; DEFECT CONCENTRATIONS; DEFECT PRODUCTION; ELECTRONIC STOPPING; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; IRRADIATED SAMPLES; IRRADIATION-INDUCED DEFECTS; NANO-SCALE SYSTEM; NANOTUBE FILMS; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

CARBON FILMS; DEFECTS; IRRADIATION; NANOSYSTEMS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 79960789681     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/7/073004     Document Type: Article

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