Measuring the work function of carbon nanotubes with thermionic method

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 647-651

  Liu, Peng ^a   Sun, Qin ^a   Zhu, Feng ^a   Liu, Kai ^a   Jiang, Kaili ^a   Liu, Liang ^a   Li, Qunqing ^a   Fan, Shoushan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE BUNDLE; WORK FUNCTIONS;

FUNCTION EVALUATION; THERMIONIC EMISSION;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTUBES, CARBON; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 40449123059     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0730817     Document Type: Article

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