Published February 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Development of a new foil compounded from carbon nanotubes and sputter-deposition carbon

  • 1. RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako Saitama (Japan)

Description

New carbon-nanotube-sputter-deposition-carbon (CNT-SDC) foils were developed and used in the U beam time at the RIKEN RI Beam Factory (RIBF) from October to December 2011. The lifetimes of these new foils were drastically extended, and stable, high-intensity U beams were successfully provided to users. The lifetime of the CNT-SDC foils was 2-5 C, which was 100 times longer than those of static C-foils previously used. The qualitative analysis of the CNT-SDC foils clearly showed that the CNT structure and bundles were broken by beam irradiation. In addition, it was found that CNT bundles in the CNT-SDC foil were grown after the carbon deposition procedure. This structure was considered to be the reason that the CNT-SDC foils maintain advantages of both CNT and SDC foils. (author)

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Journal Title
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Journal Volume
299
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 1013-1018
ISSN
0236-5731
CODEN
JRNCDM

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