Field emission from tetrahedral amorphous carbon as a function of surface treatment and substrate material

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1594-1596

  Hart, A ^a   Satyanarayana, B S ^a   Milne, W I ^a   Robertson, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0004427970     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.123627     Document Type: Article

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