{"id":501,"date":"2017-06-17T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/?p=501"},"modified":"2017-06-17T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T22:26:08","slug":"a-dual-rf-plasma-approach-for-controlling-the-graphitic-order-and-diameters-of-vertically-alligned-multiwall-carbon-nanotubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/2017\/06\/17\/a-dual-rf-plasma-approach-for-controlling-the-graphitic-order-and-diameters-of-vertically-alligned-multiwall-carbon-nanotubes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dual-RF-Plasma Approach for Controlling the Graphitic Order and Diameters of Vertically-Alligned Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/CNT_MRS2005.pdf\">CNT_MRS2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) is a unique technique for growing<\/p>\n<p>vertically-aligned multiwall carbon nanotubes (VA-MWNTs) at controllable tube densities. This<\/p>\n<p>technique is of considerable importance for low temperature growth of VA-MWNTs at desired<\/p>\n<p>locations. However, the graphitic order of these MWNTs is inferior to those grown by laser<\/p>\n<p>ablation, arc discharge, and thermal CVD techniques. Previously, these VA-MWNTs were<\/p>\n<p>grown by a one-plasma approach (DC, microwave etc), either for gas decomposition or substrate<\/p>\n<p>biasing. Here, we describe a dual-RF plasma enhanced CVD (dual-RF-PECVD) technique that<\/p>\n<p>offers unique capability for controlling the graphitic order and diameters of VA-MWNTs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNT_MRS2005 Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) is a unique technique for growing vertically-aligned multiwall carbon nanotubes (VA-MWNTs) at controllable tube densities. This technique is of considerable importance for low temperature growth of VA-MWNTs at desired locations. However, the graphitic order of these MWNTs is inferior to those grown by laser ablation, arc discharge, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,86,85,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-73","category-carbon","category-cnt","category-docs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}