Increasing emission current from MIM cathodes by using an Ir-Pt-Au multilayer top electrode

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1667-1672

  Kusunoki, Toshiaki ^a,b   Suzuki, Mutsumi ^b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD EMISSION DISPLAYS (FED);

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; IRIDIUM ALLOYS; METALLIC FILMS; MIM DEVICES; MULTILAYERS; PROBABILITY;

FIELD EMISSION CATHODES;

EID: 0034246350     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.853046     Document Type: Article

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