The production of self-organized carbon connections between Ag nanoparticles using atmospheric microplasma synthesis

被引：82

作者：

Levchenko, I. ^{[1
]}

Ostrikov, K. ^{[1
,2
]}

Mariotti, D. ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Sydney, Sch Phys, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

[2] CSIRO Mat Sci & Engn, Lindfield, NSW 2070, Australia

[3] Rochester Inst Technol, Dept Microelect Engn, Rochester, NY 14623 USA

来源：

CARBON | 2009年 / 47卷 / 01期

基金：

澳大利亚研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

PLASMA; NANOFABRICATION; GROWTH;

D O I：

10.1016/j.carbon.2008.10.005

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：

The formation of long self-organized carbon connections (where the length is much greater than the diameter) between Ag nanoparticles on a Si(100) surface in atmospheric pressure Ar + CH4 microplasmas is demonstrated. A growth scenario explaining the connection nucleation and growth is proposed, and this is supported by numerical simulations which reveal that the electric field pattern around the growing connections affects the surface diffusion of carbon adatoms, the main driving force for the observed self-organization. Results suggest that the microplasma-generated surface charges can be used as effective controls for the self-organized formation of complex carbon-based nano-networks for integrated nanodevices. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：344 / 347

页数：4

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