Raman scattering and electrical conductivity in highly disordered activated carbon fibers
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- 1 March 1993
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Materials Research
- Vol. 8 (3) , 489-500
- https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.1993.0489
Abstract
Because of their unusually large specific surface area (SSA), Activated Carbon Fibers (ACF's) have a huge density of micropores and defects. The Raman scattering technique and low-temperature dc electrical conductivity measurements were used as characterization tools to study the disorder in ACF's with SSA ranging from 1000 m2/g to 3000 m2/g. Two peaks were observed in every Raman spectrum for ACF's and they could be identified with the disorder-induced peak near ∼1360 cm−1 and the Breit–Wigner–Fano peak near ∼1610 cm−1 associated with the Raman-active E2g2 mode of graphite. The graphitic nature of the ACF's is shown by the presence of a well-defined graphitic structure with La values of 20–30 Å. We observed that the Raman scattering showed more sensitivity to the precursor materials than to the SSA of the ACF's. From 4 K to room temperature, the dc electrical resistivity in ACF's is observed to follow the exp [(T0/T)1/2] functional form and it can be accounted for by a charge-energy-limited tunneling conduction mechanism. Coulomb-gap conduction and n-dimensional (n ≤ 3) variable-range hopping conduction models were also considered but they were found to give unphysical values for their parameters.Keywords
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