Pulsed laser dewetting of nickel catalyst for carbon nanofiber growth

We present a pulsed laser dewetting technique that produces single nickel catalyst particles from lithographically patterned disks for subsequent carbon nanofiber growth through plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Unlike the case for standard heat treated Ni catalyst disks, for which multiple...

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Published in:Nanotechnology 2008-06, Vol.19 (23), p.235604-235604 (4)
Main Authors: Guan, Y F, Pearce, R C, Melechko, A V, Hensley, D K, Simpson, M L, Rack, P D
Format: Article
Language:English
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carbon nanofibers
laser processing
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Summary:We present a pulsed laser dewetting technique that produces single nickel catalyst particles from lithographically patterned disks for subsequent carbon nanofiber growth through plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Unlike the case for standard heat treated Ni catalyst disks, for which multiple nickel particles and consequently multiple carbon nanofibers (CNFs) are observed, single vertically aligned CNFs could be obtained from the laser dewetted catalyst. Different laser dewetting parameters were tested in this study, such as the laser energy density and the laser processing time measured by the total number of laser pulses. Various nickel disk radii and thicknesses were attempted and the resultant number of carbon nanofibers was found to be a function of the initial disk dimension and the number of laser pulses.
ISSN:0957-4484
1361-6528
DOI:10.1088/0957-4484/19/23/235604