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Structure and NIR feature of QCC: a laboratory analog of carbon dust
1Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan.
Advances in Space Research : the Official Journal of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
|September 7, 2001
Abstract:
We have produced thin films of quenched carbonaceous composite (QCC) by hydrocarbon plasma deposition. The effect of thermal annealing on QCC has been investigated to understand how QCC, as a laboratory analog of carbon dust, is transformed in the warm environment around evolved stars. Spectroscopic measurements have indicated that, by heating, the proportion of aromatic sp2 CH bonds increases relative to sp3 CH bonds. Carbon onion-like spherules of approximately 10 nm in diameter are found with electron microscopic images after "graphitization" of thermal annealing.