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8.2. INFRARED FREQUENCY RANGE 209<br />

is referred <strong>to</strong> as the D band. The D band has been attributed <strong>to</strong> phonons that are<br />

Raman-active because of the finite size of the microcrystals. Figure 8.19 presents a<br />

series of Raman spectra from various forms of crystalline graphite, as well as spectra<br />

from four samples of amorphous carbon with graphitic features. These spectra can<br />

be used <strong>to</strong> assess the degree of disorder and the nature of the local chemical bonding.<br />

The log-log plot of Fig. 8.20 shows how the nanocrystal size La is related <strong>to</strong> the<br />

intensity ratio ID/IG of the D band <strong>to</strong> the G band. The linearity extends over two<br />

orders of magnitude, from La = 3 nm <strong>to</strong> La = 300 nm. The nanocrystallite sizes for<br />

the data plotted in Fig. 8.20 had been independently determined from X-ray<br />

scattering data.<br />

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- m<br />

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GRAPHITIC CARBON<br />

1580<br />

Polycrystalline Graphite<br />

271 0<br />

1580<br />

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Natural Graphite Crystal<br />

30 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000<br />

Wavenumber<br />

(a)<br />

1343<br />

1<br />

IT<br />

AMORPHOUS CARBON<br />

Glassy Carbon<br />

Diamond-Like Carbon<br />

Wavenumber<br />

(b)<br />

Figure 8.19. Raman spectra of (a) crystalline graphites and (b) noncrystalline, mainly graphitic,<br />

carbons. The D band appears near 1355cm-’ and the G band, near 1580cm-’. [From<br />

D. S. Knight and W. B. White, J. Mater, Sci. 4, 385 (1989).]

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