Diagnostics of laser-produced plume under carbon nanotube growth conditions
Author(s) -
Sivaram Arepalli,
Pavel Nikolaev,
William Holmes,
Clayton Scott
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
applied physics a
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 149
eISSN - 1432-0630
pISSN - 0947-8396
DOI - 10.1007/s003390050024
Subject(s) - plume , laser , spectral line , excited state , analytical chemistry (journal) , carbon nanotube , rotational temperature , chemistry , materials science , atomic physics , optics , nanotechnology , physics , meteorology , chromatography , astronomy
The amorphous non-equilibrium state of the system Fe/Al is studied in bulk and thin-film systems. For bulk samples prepared by ion-beam mixing of laser-deposited multilayers, a bcc solid solution is found for alloys with up to 70 at. % Al. Around 75 at. % Al a Fe2Al5-like crystalline phase is found. An amorphous state with Fe2Al5-like short-range order is found for 80 at. % Al. In thin films, for example the amorphous Al-rich transition layer of a laser-deposited Fe/Al multilayer, the amorphous state can exist for up to 30 at. % Fe due to the high interfacial energy. By ion-beam mixing at low temperatures (about 140 K) an oversaturation with 40 at. % Fe can be achieved.
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