Epitaxial carbon nanotube film self-organized by sublimation decomposition of silicon carbide
Abstract
A film of well-oriented carbon nanotubes was produced by sublimation decomposition of silicon carbide at 1700 °C by using YAG laser heating in a transmission electron microscope (TEM). The processes of SiC decomposition and the formation of carbon nanotubes were observed successively by high-resolution electron microscopy (HREM). Carbon nanotubes were mostly oriented along the [111] direction on the (111) surface plane of β-SiC single crystal. The interface between them was observed by HREM.
- Publication:
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Applied Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- November 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.120158
- Bibcode:
- 1997ApPhL..71.2620K