Confirming the Dual Role of Etchants during the Enrichment of Semiconducting Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Chemical Vapor Deposition

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 5964-5973

  Ibrahim, Imad ^a,b   Kalbacova, Jana ^c   Engemaier, Vivienne ^a   Pang, Jinbo ^a   Rodriguez, Raul D ^c   Grimm, Daniel ^a   Gemming, Thomas ^a   Zahn, Dietrich R T ^c   Schmidt, Oliver G ^a,b   Eckert, Jürgen ^a,b,d   Rümmeli, Mark H ^a,b,e,f  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR ADVANCING ELECTRONICS DRESDEN CFAED   (Germany)

^c CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e Institute for Basic Science   (South Korea)

^f Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DEPOSITION; FEEDSTOCKS; VAPOR DEPOSITION; YARN;

BINARY CATALYSTS; DIAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; DUAL ROLE; FEEDSTOCK MIXTURE; METALLIC TUBES; POTENTIAL REWARDS; SMALL DIAMETER TUBE; YIELD ENHANCEMENT;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84941095356     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02037     Document Type: Article

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