Electrical and Optical Characterization of Field Emitter Tips With Integrated Vertically Stacked Focus

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2548-2558

  Dvorson, L ^a   Sha, G ^a   Kymissis, I ^a   Hong, C Y ^a   Akinwande, A I ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

BPM (BPM); Collimation; Focusing; Silicon field emission array

Indexed keywords

ANODES; ARRAYS; CATHODES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COLLIMATION; FIELD EMITTER TIPS; SILICON FIELD EMISSION ARRAYS;

FIELD EMISSION DISPLAYS;

EID: 0346076862     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2003.819700     Document Type: Article

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