Abstract
Recent research in plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) for single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) growth has achieved low-temperature synthesis, individually freestanding formation, and structure control of diameter, chirality, and length. Detailed growth kinetics of SWNTs are revealed using a combination of techniques for plasma control and nanomaterial analysis. Plasma CVD also allows tube metallicity to be controlled by tuning the mean diameter of SWNTs. This plasma CVD progress contributes to the next stage of nanotube fabrication, which is required for practical use of SWNTs in a variety of applications.
Highlights
One-dimensional single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are potential materials for future nanoelectronics [1,2,3,4,5]
Since the electronic and optical properties of SWNTs strongly depend on their structure, such as diameter, chirality, and length, the selective synthesis of SWNTs with desired structures is a major challenge in nanotube science and applications
In plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD), the source gas decomposition is effectively carried out by electron impact with no additional thermal energy; the growth temperature is significantly lower compared to that of thermal CVD [17,18,19]. Despite these benefits of plasma CVD, it is difficult to control the structure of SWNTs by plasma CVD because there are many unknown factors in plasma, such as ion density, ion energy, radical species, radical densities, and sheath electric field, which restrict the potential application of plasma CVD in nanotube science
Summary
One-dimensional single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are potential materials for future nanoelectronics [1,2,3,4,5]. In plasma CVD, the source gas decomposition is effectively carried out by electron impact with no additional thermal energy; the growth temperature is significantly lower compared to that of thermal CVD [17,18,19]. Despite these benefits of plasma CVD, it is difficult to control the structure of SWNTs by plasma CVD because there are many unknown factors in plasma, such as ion density, ion energy, radical species, radical densities, and sheath electric field, which restrict the potential application of plasma CVD in nanotube science. We give a brief overview of recent achievements in SWNT growth by plasma CVD
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