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MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN
Volume 41, Issue 11, Pages 2000-2006Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.materresbull.2006.04.009
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amorphous materials; vapor deposition; electron microscopy; optical properties; electrical properties
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Iodine and sulfur incorporated amorphous carbon (a-C) films are prepared by vapor phase pyrolysis of carbon rich organic precursor, maleic anhydride. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis depicts the intercalation induced local structural ordering and evolution of nano-graphitic phases in the sample. An X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) study on these samples confirms the presence of intercalates. The study of optical properties of the samples by UV-vis absorption spectrometry accounts for a decrease in optical bandgap and Urbach energy with impurity incorporation and increase in pyrolysis temperature. This refers to induced structural ordering, decrease in disorder and increase in sp(2) or pi-sites in the sample. Electrical conductivity measurement on a-C samples reveals increase in conductivity with pyrolysis temperature induced by iodine and sulfur incorporation. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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