Abstract

We have investigated the formation of various carbon nanostructures using extreme plasma fluxes up to four orders of magnitude larger than in conventional plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition processing. Carbon nanowalls, multi-wall nanotubes, spherical nanoparticles and nanotips are among the structures detected with electron microscopy methods. Precursor injection or surface pretreatment were not required for the synthesis of the nanostructures. Preliminary experiments with varied plasma composition, sample bias and surface temperature have demonstrated the potential for optimizing the growth of the nanostructures in the current experimental set-up.

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