Low noise and stable emission from carbon nanotube electron sources

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1-3

  De Jonge, Niels ^a,c   Allioux, Myriam ^a,d   Oostveen, Jim T ^a   Teo, Kenneth B K ^b   Milne, William I ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT FLUCTUATIONS; CURRENT LEVELS; STABLE EMISSIONS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON SOURCES; FREQUENCIES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 28344452824     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2058225     Document Type: Article

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