Huge volume expansion and structural transformation of carbon nanotube aligned arrays during electrical breakdown in vacuum

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1635-1643

  Shekhar, Shashank ^a   Heinrich, Helge ^a   Khondaker, Saiful I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED ARRAYS; ALIGNED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRENT-VOLTAGE MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRICAL BIAS; ELECTRICAL BREAKDOWN; ELECTRICAL FIELD; FLOWER-LIKE; IN-VACUUM; SOURCE AND DRAIN ELECTRODES; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TRANSFORMED STRUCTURE; VOLUME EXPANSION;

AMORPHOUS CARBON; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN OF LIQUIDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VACUUM;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84855844717     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.11.047     Document Type: Article

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