Effect of length and spacing of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes on field emission properties

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 3520-3522

  Jo, S H ^a   Tu, Y ^a   Huang, Z P ^b   Carnahan, D L ^b   Wang, D Z ^a   Ren, Z F ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NanoLab Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON EMISSION; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION;

ELECTRON-EMITTING MATERIALS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0038319048     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1576310     Document Type: Article

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