著者

Fujita Jun-ichi Takahashi Teppei Ueki Ryuichi Hikata Takeshi Okubo Soichiro Utsunomiya Risa Matsuba Teruaki

出版者

American Vacuum Society

雑誌

Journal of vacuum science & technology B (ISSN:10711023)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.30, no.3, pp.03D105, 2012

被引用文献数

4

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The authors demonstrated a new method for inducing enormous shrinkage in single-walled carbon nanotube bundles by applying low energy electron beam irradiation along with supersonic vibration, and a maximum shrinkage rate of −100% cm2/C was obtained under electron acceleration of 1 keV. The characteristic feature of the shrunken single-walled carbon nanotubes was a wavy deformation that affected the entire bundle. The authors believe that a uniaxial stress induced by the supersonic vibration broke the equilibrium of the internal stress and allowed the uniform accumulation of defects under low energy electron beam excitation. The wavy deformation of the single-walled carbon nanotubes resulted in the enormous shrinkage of the bundle.