Carbon fractals grown from carbon nanotips by plasma-enhanced hot filament chemical vapor deposition

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 258, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1677-1681

  Wang, B B ^a   Dong, G B ^b   Xu, X Z ^c  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon fractals; Carbon nanotips; Ion bombardment

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON EMISSION; FRACTALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTIPS; NITROGEN PLASMA; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON NANO-MATERIALS; CARBON NANOTIPS; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; ELECTRON EMISSION MECHANISM; FORMATION MODEL; HOT-FILAMENT CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; MICRO RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ION BOMBARDMENT;

EID: 81555219437     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2011.09.124     Document Type: Article

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