Ultra-low-voltage Schottky-barrier field-enhanced electron emission from gold nanowires electrochemically grown in modified porous alumina templates

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 312-314

  Banan Sadeghian, Ramin ^a   Badilescu, Simona ^a   Djaoued, Yahia ^b   Balaji, Subramanian ^b   Truong, Vo Van ^a   Kahrizi, Mojtaba ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

Field emission (FE); Gold nanowires (AuNW); Schottky barrier field enhancement

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON EMISSION; GOLD; NANOWIRES;

GOLD NANOWIRES (AUNWS); POROUS ANODIC ALUMINA (PAA); SCHOTTKY-BARRIER FIELD ENHANCEMENT;

SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES;

EID: 41749114965     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2008.917114     Document Type: Article

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