Oxygen Desorption from Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Camera Flash
In this paper, we report that the electrical conductance of single-walled carbon nanotubes networks decreases when the nanotubes are illuminated by camera flash in high vacuum up to 10−6 Torr. The decreasing conductance shows step-like characteristics at each illumination.
The magnitude of conductance change step reduces gradually after each illumination; finally, the conductance reaches saturation. Controlled experiments in air, oxygen and nitrogen gas indicate that mechanism for these observations is photodesorption of molecular oxygen from singled-walled
carbon nanotubes.
Keywords: ILLUMINATION; PHOTODESORPTION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 February 2009
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