Millimeter-tall carpets of vertically aligned crystalline carbon nanotubes synthesized on copper substrates for electrical applications

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 33, 2014, Pages 19345-19355

  Teblum, Eti ^a   Noked, Malachi ^a   Grinblat, Judith ^a   Kremen, Anna ^a   Muallem, Merav ^a   Fleger, Yafit ^a   Tischler, Yaakov R ^a   Aurbach, Doron ^a   Nessim, Gilbert D ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; SUBSTRATES;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (CVD); CRITICAL PROCESS PARAMETERS; ELECTRICAL APPLICATIONS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE;

COPPER;

EID: 84906546067     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5015719     Document Type: Article

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