Large current density from carbon nanotube field emitters

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 873-875

  Zhu, W ^a   Bower, C ^b   Zhou, O ^b   Kochanski, G ^a   Jin, S ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COLD CATHODE TUBES; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRON EMISSION;

CARBON NANOTUBE FIELD EMITTERS; SINGLE-WALL NANOTUBES;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 0032620880     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.124541     Document Type: Article

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