Silicon Carbide

For my PhD-thesis I work at the university Friedrich-Schiller in Jena, Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory. The subject of my PhD-thesis is "Preparation of nano-sized silicon carbide powders by laser pyrolysis and spectroscopic investigations of matrix isolated particles (prepared by molecular beam technique)". I started this work in october 1997.

Experimental methods:

• Silicon carbide generation by laser pyrolysis
  
• Low temperature matrix isolation of a particle beam to avoid agglomeration
  

Click here to see some photos of the experimental setup

Analytical methods:

• IR-spectroscopy
  
• UV/VIS-spectroscopy
  
• Raman-spectroscopy
  
• X-Ray-diffraction
  
• Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS)
  
• (high resolution) Transmission electron microscopy (TEM, HR-TEM)
  
• Comparison with astronomical data

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Last modified: Dominik Clément, February 99