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DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS
Volume 18, Issue 9, Pages 1070-1073Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.diamond.2009.01.045
Keywords
Carbon spheres; MPCVD; Raman; Graphitic edges
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- Vice-Chancellor Research fund
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Arrays of carbon nanoflake spherules (CNSs) have been grown on the copper substrate by the microwave plasma assisted chemical vapour deposition method. Uniform sized CNSs of diameters of 700-950 nm have been produced. The CNSs are free from any other carbon nano-structures. The growth of CNSs has been found to be strongly affected by the undulating surface (crest-trough morphology) of the substrate with preferential growth along the direction of crests. Micro-Raman spectroscopic analysis reveals highly active surface of the graphitic edges of as-grown CNSs. A possible growth mechanism has been proposed which could be used for a large yield of arrays of the CNSs. The field-emission measurements show potential applications of the CNSs in the vacuum electronics devices with a low turn-on field of 7.4 V/mu m. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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