“…The source material within a boat centered at the furnace is vaporized into a carrier gas. Nanoparticles of various materials, such as Ag, Au, PbS, and fullerene, have previously been produced using the evaporation/condensation technique (Gurav, Kodas, Wang, Kauppinen, & Joutsensaari, 1994;Kruis, Fissan, & Rellinghaus, 2000;Magnusson, Deppert, Malm, Bovin, & Samuelson, 1999;Scheibel & Porstendörfer, 1983;Schmidt-Ott, 1988;Shimada, Seto, & Okuyama, 1994).…”