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Determining the mass density of a hydrocarbon matrix in thin-film nanocomposites by ion-beam techniques

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An approach based on ion-beam analysis, including Rutherford backscattering, nuclear backscattering, and elastic recoil detection, for determining the partial mass density of a hydrocarbon matrix in nanocomposites is proposed and applied to the nc-TiC/a-C:H thin-film coating material.

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  1. Skobel’tsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119899, Russia

    N. G. Chechenin, P. N. Chernykh, V. S. Kulikauskas, Y. Pei, D. Vainshtein & J. Th. M. De Hosson

  2. Materials Science Center, University of Groningen, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands

    N. G. Chechenin, P. N. Chernykh, V. S. Kulikauskas, Y. Pei, D. Vainshtein & J. Th. M. De Hosson

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Original Russian Text © N.G. Chechenin, P.N. Chernykh, V.S. Kulikauskas, Y. Pei, D. Vainshtein, J.Th.M. De Hosson, 2007, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2007, Vol. 33, No. 21, pp. 47–55.

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Chechenin, N.G., Chernykh, P.N., Kulikauskas, V.S. et al. Determining the mass density of a hydrocarbon matrix in thin-film nanocomposites by ion-beam techniques. Tech. Phys. Lett. 33, 919–922 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785007110089

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