Figure 6
Normalized Fe L3,2 near-edge absorption spectra of (a) the Fe metal and the carbon nanotubes with diameters of (b) 220 ± 100, (c) 30 ± 15 and (d) 10 ± 5 nm The dashed line represents the extrapolated background at the Fe L3 edge. The centre of the continuum step of the arctangent function was selected at the maximum height of the white-line features. The white-line region of the Fe L3 edge is shown in the inset on a magnified scale. The intensity of the pure Fe spectrum has been reduced by a factor of 1/2. |