Uniform carbon-nanotube emitter for field-emission displays

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 727-733

  Kurachi, Hiroyuki ^a   Uemura, Sashiro ^a   Yotani, Jyunko ^a   Nagasako, Takeshi ^a   Yamada, Hiromu ^a   Ezaki, Tomotaka ^a   Maesoba, Tsuyoshi ^a   Nakao, Takehiro ^a   Ito, Masaaki ^a   Sakurai, Akira ^a   Saito, Yahachi ^b   Shinohara, Hisanori ^b  

^a Noritake Co Limited   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube (CNT); Chemical vapor deposition (CVD); Field emission display (FED); Low driving voltage; Uniform emission

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROLYSIS; FIELD EMISSION DISPLAYS; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); VAPORS;

ALUMINA LAYERS; DRIVING VOLTAGES; ELECTRIC-FIELD; EMISSION CHARACTERIZATIONS; FIELD EMITTERS; FIELD-EMISSION DISPLAY (FED); GROWN LAYERS; HIGH-TEMPERATURE; LOW DRIVING VOLTAGE; LOW TEMPERATURES; METAL CATALYSTS; METAL ELECTRODES; NANOTUBE EMITTERS; SYNTHESIS OF; THERMAL CVD; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTIONS; UNIFORM EMISSION; WALLED NANOTUBES;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION;

EID: 33745271929     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2080509     Document Type: Article

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