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Elastic and Structural Properties of Carbon Materials Investigated by Brillouin Light Scattering

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Brillouin light scattering (BS) is a nondestructive technique exploited to investigate collective excitations in solids: acoustic phonons, spin waves, magnons and density fluctuations. In particular, it permits users to characterize dynamical structural and nanomechanical properties of materials through the detection of thermally excited surface and bulk acoustic phonons. This gives access to information about both surface and bulk structural properties in the spatial range from a few nanometers to several hundred nanometers. Here we show how BS has been widely and successfully used to study various carbon-based materials ranging from ultra-thin tetrahedral amorphous carbon films to carbon nanotubes. These materials are interesting for both technological applications and fundamental research.

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    Marco G. Beghi, Carlo S. Casari, Andrea Li Bassi & Carlo E. Bottani

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Beghi, M.G., Casari, C.S., Bassi, A.L., Bottani, C.E. Elastic and Structural Properties of Carbon Materials Investigated by Brillouin Light Scattering. In: Messina, G., Santangelo, S. (eds) Carbon. Topics in Applied Physics, vol 100. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/11378235_8

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