Field emission of electron anions clathrated in subnanometer-sized cages in [Ca24Al28O64]4+(4e-)

Advanced Materials

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 685-689

  Toda, Yoshitake ^a,b   Matsuishi, Satoru ^a,b   Hayashi, Katsuro ^b   Ueda, Kazushige ^a,c   Kamiya, Toshio ^a,b   Hirano, Masahiro ^b   Hosono, Hideo ^a,b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTRONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NEGATIVE IONS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY;

ELECTRIDES; ELECTRON ANIONS; FIELD EMISSIONS; THERMIONIC EMISSIONS;

FIELD EMISSION CATHODES;

EID: 2442526717     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200306484     Document Type: Article

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