Electron field emission from carbon nanotubes

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1021-1033

  Cheng, Yuan ^a   Zhou, Otto ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Electron field emission

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346973199     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0705(03)00103-8     Document Type: Short Survey

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