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    Laser Ablation or Laser Vaporization

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    Laser vaporization is a process for producing carbon nanotubes where a pulsed or continuous laser is used to vaporize a graphite target containing a metal catalyst at high temperatures. A vapor plume forms and expands, allowing small carbon molecules and catalyst particles to condense and attach, promoting the growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes on the catalyst surfaces until no more carbon can diffuse. Higher yields of single-walled nanotubes are obtained compared to other methods such as arc discharge.

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    Laser Ablation or Laser Vaporization

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    Laser vaporization is a process for producing carbon nanotubes where a pulsed or continuous laser is used to vaporize a graphite target containing a metal catalyst at high temperatures. A vapor plume forms and expands, allowing small carbon molecules and catalyst particles to condense and attach, promoting the growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes on the catalyst surfaces until no more carbon can diffuse. Higher yields of single-walled nanotubes are obtained compared to other methods such as arc discharge.

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    Laser vaporization is a process for producing carbon nanotubes where a pulsed or continuous laser is used to vaporize a graphite target containing a metal catalyst at high temperatures. A vapor plume forms and expands, allowing small carbon molecules and catalyst particles to condense and attach, promoting the growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes on the catalyst surfaces until no more carbon can diffuse. Higher yields of single-walled nanotubes are obtained compared to other methods such as arc discharge.

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    Laser vaporization is a process for producing carbon nanotubes where a pulsed or continuous laser is used to vaporize a graphite target containing a metal catalyst at high temperatures. A vapor plume forms and expands, allowing small carbon molecules and catalyst particles to condense and attach, promoting the growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes on the catalyst surfaces until no more carbon can diffuse. Higher yields of single-walled nanotubes are obtained compared to other methods such as arc discharge.

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    Laser Ablation or Laser

    Vaporization
    schematic
    2. LASER VAPOURIZATION  A pulsed or continuous laser is
    used to vaporize a graphite
    target in an oven
    at 1200oC.
     Oven is filled with He or Ar gas
    to keep the pressure at 500 Torr
    A hot vapor plume forms,
    expands and then cools
     As the vapor species cool,
    small carbon molecules and
    atoms condense to form clusters
     Catalysts also begin to
    condense and attach to C
    clusters to prevent them from
    closing.
     Until no longer C can diffuse
     Contaminants like MWCNTS are also formed over the catalyst, SWCNTS grow.
     With pure graphite electrodes, MWCNTS
     With a mixture of graphite with Co, Ni, Fe or Y – SWCNTS.
     eg. Ni:Co (4.2 :1) catalyst and a pulsed laser at 1470oC, SWCNTs
    1.3-1.4 nm are obtained
     Better than arc method – higher yield.
    ULTRA FAST PULSED LASER – free electron laser – pulse width
    400 fs, pulse repetition rate – 75 MHz . The Intensity reaches
    5 x 1011 W/cm-2 which is 1000 times greater than Nd:YAG
     A jet of preheated (1000oC) Ar through a nozzle tip is
    situated close to the rotating graphite target, which contains
    the catalyst.
     The Ar deflects the ablation plume 90o away from the
    incident FEL beam direction, cleaning away the carbon vapour A CW laser method can also b
    from the region in front of the target. used
     The SWCNT is collected in a cold finger, Laser ablation of mixed graph
     YIELD – 1.5 gh-1 and metallic catalyst by a 2kW
    CW CO2 laser in Ar or N2

    USE OF MICRON SIZED


    PARTICLES
    Thermal conductivity losses
    are decreased.

    YIELD – 5 gh-1

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