Journal
DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 66-71Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.diamond.2007.10.027
Keywords
SWNTs; electron-beam evaporation rate; diameter distribution
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Thermal pyrolysis chemical vapor deposition growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) was demonstrated by using catalytic pads of nickel (3 similar to 4 nm) and SiO2 (100 nm) deposited by electron-beam evaporation in sequence on the thermal silicon oxide substrate. The diameters of SWNTs on the samples with upper SiO2 layer of different deposition rates were characterized by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and micro-Raman spectroscopy. It was observed that the average diameter and density of SWNTs increased as the deposition rate of upper SiO2 layer increased. The differences of the SWNTs diameter distribution were attributed to the differences in the curvature of the SiO2 porous structure deposited with different deposition rates. The high-resolution transmission electron micrographs and the corresponding diffractogram showed that SWNTs with diameter as low as 0.51 nm could be found and the AFM measurements revealed that a high percentage (similar to 70%) of SWNTs of diameters lower than 1.0 nm was achieved by upper SiO2 layer deposition rate of 0.5 angstrom/s, whereas bundles of SWNTs were found with higher SiO2 deposition rates. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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