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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Vertically aligned carbon nanorods and multi walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) were synthesized by electron cyclotron resonance chemical vapor deposition (ECR-CVD) on Ni- coated glass substrates with the RF-self biasing of –100 and –200 V, respectively. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy indicated that the distance between adjacent graphene layers of carbon nanorods is much larger than that of well-graphitized MWNTs. In electron-energy-loss spectra, the energy of π+σ plasmon peak for the carbon nanorod shifts towards lower value of 23.8 eV, by comparison with the well-graphitized MWNT at 25.5 eV. In addition, the π palsmon peak at 6 eV is clearly defined for the well-graphitized MWNT, but not seen for the carbon nanorod. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy also showed that the delocalization of π electrons gets more pronounced with the structural evolvement from the carbon nanorod to the well-graphitized MWNT. Therefore, it is suggested that ionic bombardment can provide sufficient internal energy for dehydrogenation from hydrocarbon molecules, and thus, well-graphitized MWNTs could be grown even at low temperatures.