Amorphous Carbon

Introduction:

• Astrophysical motivation

• Carbonaceous dust analogues

Experimental methods:

• Carbon cluster generation (bulk evaporation, laser pyrolysis, flames)
  
• Low temperature matrix isolation spectroscopy (MIS)

Click here to see some details of the matrix isolation experiment for the spectroscopy of carbon nano-grains produced by bulk evaporation of graphite

Analytical methods:

• UV/VIS-, IR-spectroscopy
  
• Raman spectroscopy
  
• Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS)
  
• (high resolution) Transmission electron microscopy (TEM, HR-TEM)

  Click here to see some results

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Last modified: Harald Mutschke, April 2003