Synthesis of carbon nanotube films by thermal CVD in the presence of supported catalyst particles. Part II: the nanotube film
Artikel i övrig tidskrift, 2004

Carbon nanotube films have been grown at 750° and 900 °C by thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) with acetylene (C2H2) and hydrogen on silicon (0 0 2) wafers supporting preformed (Fe,Si)3O4 particles. The reduction of the (Fe,Si)3O4 particles during CVD at 750 °C was accompanied by a disintegration leading to the formation of a high density of smaller (predominantly 5–15 nm) iron silicide (α1-Fe2Si) particles that catalyzed the growth of a dense and aligned multi-wall carbon nanotube film. The tubes did not contain any inclusions apart from the catalytic particles present in the bottom part of the film, and it was concluded that the nanotubes grew via a “base-growth” mechanism. CVD at 900 °C resulted in a random growth of predominantly multi-wall carbon nanotubes. The film contained an increased number of amorphous carbon, or graphite, clusters containing particles that had been carbonized, the larger ones to cementite, θ-Fe3C. Nanotubes were observed to grow from some of these clusters. Multi-wall carbon nanotube tips contained after CVD at 900 °C encapsulated θ-Fe3C, or in a few cases α- or γ-Fe, particles.

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Yiming Yao

Chalmers, Institutionen för experimentell fysik

Lena Falk

Chalmers, Institutionen för experimentell fysik, Mikroskopi och mikroanalys

Raluca Elena Morjan

Chalmers, Institutionen för experimentell fysik, Atomfysik

O.A. Nerushev

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik

Eleanor E B Campbell

Göteborgs universitet

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics

Vol. 15 9 583-594

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