Modeling of the behavior of random carbon nanotubes during field emission

Proceedings - 2005 International Conference on MEMS, NANO and Smart Systems, ICMENS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 371-376

  Sinha, Niraj ^a,b   Yeow, John T W ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODE ELECTRON SOURCES; ELECTRON EMITTERS; EMISSION CURRENT DENSITY; THRESHOLD ELECTRIC FIELDS;

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION DISPLAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33749053609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMENS.2005.75     Document Type: Conference Paper

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