Synthesis and analysis of thin conducting pyrolytic carbon films

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1216-1226

  McEvoy, Niall ^a   Peltekis, Nikolaos ^a   Kumar, Shishir ^a   Rezvani, Ehsan ^a   Nolan, Hugo ^a   Keeley, Gareth P ^a,b   Blau, Werner J ^a   Duesberg, Georg S ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCES; CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION; COST EFFECTIVE; CRYSTALLINITIES; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY; PYROLYTIC CARBON; REACTION PARAMETERS; SCALABLE SYNTHESIS; SHEET RESISTANCE MEASUREMENTS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS; VISIBLE RANGE;

ACETYLENE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PYROLYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON FILMS;

EID: 84155164938     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.10.036     Document Type: Article

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