Fabrication and characterization of single carbon nanotube emitters as point electron sources

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Zhao, Gongpu ^d   Zhang, Jian ^d   Zhang, Qi ^d   Zhang, Han ^d   Zhou, Otto ^d   Qin, Lu Chang ^a,b   Tang, Jie ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS; ELECTRON FIELD EMITTERS; FIELD ENHANCEMENTS;

CARBON FIBERS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COPPER; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON SOURCES; FABRICATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33750898295     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2387961     Document Type: Article

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