Detection of nickel atom by laser induced fluorescence during carbon nanotube formation in a laser produced plume
- 15 May 2001
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 89 (10) , 5760-5768
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1365441
Abstract
In situ monitoring of catalyst nickel atoms by laser induced fluorescence during carbon nanotube formation in a laser-produced plume was performed at the Johnson Space Center nanotube production laboratory. The results indicate that ablation of nickel and plume dynamics are strongly related to the oven temperature. Nickel atoms have a long lifetime of several milliseconds and have an electronic temperature of at least 1500 K during carbon nanotube formation.This publication has 39 references indexed in Scilit:
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