Nickel (Ni) Single Crystals and Substrates

Nickel is a hard silvery-white lustrous metal, malleable and ductile, with relatively high electrical conductivity as a transition metal. Nickel single crystal substrate is widely used for growth of graphene and carbon nanotubes.

Main Parameters of Nickel Single Crystal Substrates
SKUs:	WA1510-WA1512
Material	Ni
CAS#	7440-02-0
Purity	99.99% (4N)
Crystal structure	Cubic
Unit cell constant	a = 3.5238 Å
Melt point	1,453 ºC
Density	8.9 g/cm³
Thermal expansion	13.3 x 10^-6 K^-1
Sizes	10 mm x 10 mm x 0.5 mm
Sizes	Other sizes are available upon request
Surface polishing	Single side polished is standard, double side polished upon request
Crystal orientations	(100), (110), (111)
Surface roughness, Ra	< 10 nm
Package	Sealed in class 100 clean bags packed in class 1000 clean room

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References:

Du, Chunsheng, and Ning Pan. CVD growth of carbon nanotubes directly on nickel substrate. Materials Letters 59, no. 13 (2005): 1678-1682

Ravani, Fotini, Konstantinos Papagelis, Vassileios Dracopoulos, John Parthenios, Konstantinos G. Dassios, Angeliki Siokou, and Costas Galiotis. Graphene production by dissociation of camphor molecules on nickel substrate. Thin Solid Films 527 (2013): 31-37.

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