Thermionic emission of amorphous diamond and field emission of carbon nanotubes

Carbon

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 2839-2845

  Kan, Ming Chi ^a   Huang, Jow Lay ^a   Sung, James C ^b   Chen, Kuei Hsien ^c   Yau, Bao Shun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

A. Diamond; Carbon nanotubes; D. Electronic properties; Field emission

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; DEFECTS; DIAMONDS; FERMI LEVEL; THERMIONIC EMISSION;

FIELD EMISSIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0142126751     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6223(03)00414-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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