Nanopillar arrays on semiconductor membranes as electron emission amplifiers

Nanotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Qin, Hua ^a,b   Kim, Hyun Seok ^a   Blick, Robert H ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON EMISSION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

ELECTRON EMISSION AMPLIFIERS; NANOPILLAR ARRAYS; NANOPILLAR-MEMBRANE (NPM) SYSTEMS; SECONDARY ELECTRON YIELD (SEY);

ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS;

SILICON;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRON EMISSION AMPLIFIER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULATOR; MATERIALS; MEMBRANE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOPILLAR MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIMULATION;

EID: 42549145968     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/19/9/095504     Document Type: Article

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