Field Emission of Individual Carbon Nanotubes and its Improvement by Decoration with Ruthenium Dioxide Super-Nanoparticles

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 475-482

  Liu, Pou ^a   Arai, Fumihito ^a   Dong, Lixin ^b   Fukuda, Toshio ^a   Noguchi, Tsuneyuki ^c   Tatenuma, Katsuyoshi ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c KAKEN Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; electron beam induced deposition; field emission; nanorobotic manipulation; super nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; FIELD EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION DISPLAYS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOPARTICLES; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTROMETERS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; YARN;

CARBON NANOTUBE EMITTERS; ELECTRON BEAM-INDUCED DEPOSITION; FIELD-EMISSION DISPLAYS; FIELD-EMISSION ELECTRONS; FIELD-EMISSION PROPERTIES; METALLICS; NANO SIZED; NANOROBOTIC MANIPULATIONS; REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION; SUPER-NANOPARTICLE;

DEPOSITS;

EID: 34250616034     PISSN: 09153942     EISSN: 18838049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2005.p0475     Document Type: Article

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