Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 254, Issue 20, Pages 6416-6421Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2008.04.019
Keywords
carbon nanotube; thermal chemical vapor deposition; Pd/Fe catalyst
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The effects of Pd addition to Fe (Pd/Fe = 0, 2.5/7.5, 5/5, 7.5/2.5 and 1) and growth temperatures (920 and 970 degrees C) on density, diameter and growth mode of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been studied. SEM observations and TG analyses confirmed that the CNT yields depend on Pd/Fe ratios as (7.5/2.5) > (5/5) > Pd > (2.5/7.5) > Fe at both growth temperatures. TEM data showed that addition of Pd results in tip growth mode. From Raman spectroscopy data, the order of samples' structural quality (I-G/I-D ratio) are Fe > Pd/Fe ( 2.5/7.5) > (5/5) > (7.5/2.5) > Pd and the IG/ID ratios increase by decreasing the growth temperature. Films with higher concentration of Fe (Pd/Fe = 0, 2.5/7.5) contain some single-walled carbon nanotubes. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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