High brightness electron beam from a multi-walled carbon nanotube

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6914, 2002, Pages 393-395

  De Jonge, Niels ^a   Lamy, Yann ^a,b   Schoots, Koen ^a,c   Oosterkamp, Tjerk H ^c  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES;

ANGULAR CURRENT DENSITY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON; NANOPARTICLE;

CARBON; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRON BEAM; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0037191823     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01233     Document Type: Article

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