Hydrogen plasma treatment on catalytic layer and effect of oxygen additions on plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of carbon nanotube

被引:23
作者
Lee, H [1 ]
Kang, YS [1 ]
Lee, PS [1 ]
Lee, JY [1 ]
机构
[1] Korea Adv Inst Sci & Technol, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Yusong Gu, Taejon 305701, South Korea
关键词
chemical vapor deposition; hydrogen plasma treatment; oxygen additions; carbon nanotubes; optical emission spectroscopy;
D O I
10.1016/S0925-8388(01)01599-7
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Multi-wall carbon nanotubes have been synthesized by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on Co-coated silicon substrates. Prior to the deposition of carbon nanotubes, dense and uniform nanosized catalytic seeds were formed by hydrogen plasma treatment on Co thin film. The size and morphology of Co catalytic seeds varied with hydrogen plasma treatment time. In the carbon nanotube growing process, a mixture of CH4 and H-2 was used as gas source. Small O-2 additions to the CH4-H-2 gas mixture (0similar to12% of mixture gas) improved the purity of carbon nanotubes and surprisingly led to high quality even at low growth temperature (610degreesC) as observed in high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). In order to understand the growth process by CH4-H-2-O-2 plasma CVD in detail, optical emission spectroscopy (OES) was introduced. The results of OES analysis showed that, with the increase of oxygen amount, the intensity of C-2 decreased gradually, but the intensity of the OH radical increased sharply. It probably leads to increasing the etching effect on defective structure by affluent OH radical and suppressing super-saturation of carbon molecules at growing edges. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science BY All rights reserved.
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页码:569 / 573
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