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NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 28, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/28/285301
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- Institute for Functional Nanomaterials (NSF) [0701525]
- PR NASA EPSCoR [NNX07AO30A]
- PR DOE EPSCoR [DE-FG02-08ER46526]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [0923021] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Novel sp(3) rich diamond-like carbon nanorod films were fabricated by a hot filament chemical vapour deposition technique. The results are indicative of a bottom-up synthesis process, which results in a hierarchical structure that consists of microscale papillae comprising numerous nanorods. The papillae have diameters ranging from 2 to 4 mu m and the nanorods have diameters in the 35-45 nm range. A growth mechanism based on the vapour-liquid-solid mechanism is proposed that accounts for the morphological aspects at the microscale and nanoscale. Investigation of field emission properties of fabricated nanorods reveals a low turn-on field of about 4.9 V mu m(-1) at 1 nA and a high field-enhancement factor.
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