Superior thermal interface via vertically aligned carbon nanotubes grown on graphite foils

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 933-939

  Ganguli, Sabyasachi ^a,b   Roy, Ajit K ^a   Wheeler, Robert ^c   Varshney, Vikas ^a,d   Du, Feng ^e   Dai, Liming ^e  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UES INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^e Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

nanoscale; thermal conductivity; transmission electron microscopy (TEM)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFACIAL STRUCTURES; INTERFACIAL THERMAL RESISTANCE; NANO SCALE; THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM); VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE;

GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; MICROELECTRONICS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84875710852     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2012.401     Document Type: Article

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