Field emission energy distributions from individual multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 312-327

  Fransen, M J ^a,b   Van Rooy, Th L ^a   Kruit, P ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON RESONANCE; NANOTUBES; THERMIONIC EMISSION; TUNGSTEN;

ELECTRON EMITTERS; FIELD EMISSION;

ELECTRON SOURCES;

EID: 0032656064     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4332(99)00056-2     Document Type: Article

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