Nitrogen doped multi walled carbon nanotubes produced by CVD-correlating XPS and Raman spectroscopy for the study of nitrogen inclusion

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3535-3541

  Sharifi, Tiva ^a   Nitze, Florian ^a   Barzegar, Hamid Reza ^a   Tai, Cheuk Wai ^b   Mazurkiewicz, Marta ^c   Malolepszy, Artur ^c   Stobinski, Leszek ^c,d   Wågberg, Thomas ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DIAMETER; BONDING ENERGIES; CATALYST MATERIAL; CATALYTIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DOPING LEVELS; HIGH PURITY; INCORPORATION MECHANISM; INTEGRATED AREAS; NITROGEN CONTENT; NITROGEN-DOPED; NITROGEN-DOPING; NITROGEN-DOPING EFFECTS; RAMAN MODES; VOLUME RATIO; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTRA;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DEFECTS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TUBES (COMPONENTS); X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

NITROGEN;

EID: 84861644294     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.03.022     Document Type: Article

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