NANOMATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
ArticleName
SURFACE STRUCTURE OF SILICON/CARBON
MATRIX NANOCOMPOSITES AS REVEALED BY
SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY
ArticleAuthors
M.D. Malinkovich, Yu.N. Parkhomenko, D.S.
Polyakov and M.L. Shupegin
ArticleAuthorsData
M.D. Malinkovich, Yu.N. Parkhomenko, D.S.
Polyakov and M.L. Shupegin, Federal State Educational
Institution for Higher Professional Education
‘National University of Science and Technology
“MISiS”’
Abstract
The surface of silicon/carbon matrix amorphous films
containing nanosized platinum particles has been studied
by scanning probe microscopy. The film surface
as imaged by atomic force microscopy has random
roughness sized less than 1 nm whereas the surface
image obtained by scanning tunneling microscopy
shows densely packed hemispheric features several
decades of nanometers in diameter and several nanometers
in height. We assume that platinum particles
are distributed regularly during film synthesis.
keywords
Silicon/carbon matrix, AFM image, STM
image, nanometer size particles.
Language of full-text
russian
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