Ultrathin pyrolytic carbon films on a magnetic substrate

作者:Umair Ahmad*; Raza Tehseen Z; Raza Hassan
来源:Materials Research Express, 2016, 3(7): 075601.
DOI:10.1088/2053-1591/3/7/075601

摘要

We report the growth of ultrathin pyrolytic carbon (PyC) films on nickel substrate by using chemical vapor deposition at 1000 degrees C under methane ambience. We find that the ultra-fast cooling is crucial for PyC film uniformity by controlling the segregation of carbon on nickel. We characterize the in-plane crystal size of the PyC film by using Raman spectroscopy. The Raman peaks at similar to 1354 and similar to 1584 cm(-1) wavenumbers are used to extract the D and G bands. The corresponding peak intensities are then used in an excitation energy dependent equation to calculate the in-plane crystal size. Using Raman area mapping, the mean value of in-plane crystal size over an area of 100 mu m x 100 mu m is about 22.9 nm with a standard deviation of about 2.4 nm.

  • 出版日期2016-7