Effect of nitrogen gas on the lifetime of carbon nanotube field emitters for electron-impact ionization mass spectrometry

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6959, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Getty, Stephanie A ^a   Bis, Rachael A ^a   Snyder, Stacy ^b   Gehrels, Emily ^a   Ramirez, Kristina ^a   King, Todd T ^a   Roman, Patrick A ^a   Mahaffy, Paul R ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Electron impact ionization; Field emission; Lifetesting

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE FIELD EMITTERS; ELECTRON-IMPACT IONIZATION; NITROGEN GAS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN;

FIELD EMISSION;

EID: 44349115494     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.776914     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (22)

1. Rinzler, A. G., Hafner, J. H., Nikolaev, P., Lou, L., Kim, S. G., Tomanek, D., Nordlander, P., Colbert, D. T., and Smalley, R. E., "Unraveling nanotubes: Field emission from an atomic wire," Science 269, 1550 (1995).
2. Gulyaev, Yu. V. Chernozatonskii, L. A., Kosakovskaja, Ja., Sinitsyn, N. I., Torgashov, G. V., and Zakharchenko, Yu. F., "Field emitter arrays on nanotube carbon structure films," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 13, 435 (1995).
3. de Heer, W. A., Chatelain, A., Ugarte, D., "A carbon nanotube field-emission electron source," Science 270, 1179 (1995).
4. Collins, P. G. and Zettl, A., "A simple and robust electron beam source from carbon nanotubes," Appl. Phys. Lett. 69, 1969 (1996).
5. Wang, Q. H., Corrigan, T. D., Dai, J. Y., Chang, R. P. H., and Krauss, A. R., "Field emission from nanotube bundle emitters at low fields," Appl. Phys. Lett. 70, 3308 (1997).
6. Bower, C. A., Gilchrist, K. H., Piascik, J. R., Stoner, B. R., Natarajan, S., Parker, C. B., Wolter, S. D., and Glass, J. T., "On-chip electron-impact ion source using carbon nanotube field emitters," Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 124102 (2007).
7. Dean, K. A. and Chalamala, B. R., "The environmental stability of field emission from single-walled carbon nanotubes," Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 3017 (1999).
8. 2 gases on the field-emission properties of single-walled and multiwalled carbon nanotubes," Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 1867 (2001).
9. Dong, C. and Gupta, M. C., "Influences of the surface reactions on the field emission from multiwall carbon nanotubes," Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 159 (2003).
10. Waki, S., Hata, K., Sato, H, and Saito, Y., "Behaviors of single nitrogen molecule on pentagon at carbon nanotube tip observed by field emission microscopy," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 25, 517 (2007).
11. Lim, S. C., Choi, Y. C., Jeong, H. J., Shin, Y. M., An, K. H., Bae, D. J., Lee, Y. H., Lee, N. S., and Kim, J. M., "Effect of gas exposure on field emission properties of carbon nanotube arrays," Adv. Mater. 13, 1563 (2001).
12. Bonard, J.-M., Klinke, C., Dean, K. A., and Coll, B. F., "Degradation and failure of carbon nanotube field emitters," Phys. Rev. B 67, 115406 (2003).
13. Doytcheva, M., Kaiser, M., and de Jonge, N., "In situ transmission electron microscopy investigation of the structural changes in carbon nanotubes during electron emission at high currents," Nanotechnology 17, 3226 (2006).
14. Liang, X. H., Deng, S. Z., Xu, N. S., Chen, J., Huang, N. Y., and She, J. C., "Noncatastrophic and catastrophic vacuum breakdowns of carbon nanotube film under direct current conditions," J. Appl. Phys. 101, 063309 (2007).
15. Niemann, H. H. B., Atreya, S. K., Bauer, S. J., Biemann, K., Block, B., Carignan, G. R., Donahue, T. M., Frost, R. L., Gautier, D., Haberman, J. A., Harpold, D., Hunten, D. M., Isreal, G., Lunine, J. I., Mauersberger, K., Owen, T. C., Raulin, F., Richards, J. E., Way, S.H., "The gas Chromatograph mass spectrometer for the Huygens Probe," Space Science Reviews 104, 553 (2002).
16. Mahaffy, P.R., "Exploration of the Habitability of Mars: Development of Analytical Protocols for Measurement of Organic Carbon on the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory," Space Science Reviews, DOI 10.1007/s11214-007- 9223-1 (2007).
17. Getty, S. A., King, T. T., Bis, R. A., Jones, H. H., Herrero, F., Lynch, B. A., Roman, P., and Mahaffy, P., "Performance of a Carbon Nanotube Field Emission Electron Gun," Proceedings of SPIE 6556, 18 (2007).
18. Sinha, N., Mahapatra, D. R., Sun, Y., Yeow, J. T. W., Melnik, R. V. N., and Jaffray, D. A., "Electromechanical interactions in a carbon nanotube based thin film field emitting diode," Nanotechnology 19, 025701 (2005).
19. Tan, C. M., Jia, J., Yu, W., "Temperature dependence of the field emission of multiwalled carbon nanotubes," Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 263104 (2005).
20. Sheng, L. M., Liu, P., Liu, Y. M., Qian, L., Huang, Y. S., Liu, L., and Fan, S.S., "Effects of carbon-containing gases on the field-emission current of multi-walled carbon nanotube arrays," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 21, 1202 (2003).
21. Geohegan, D. B., Puretzky, A. A., Ivanov, I. N., Jesse, S., and Eres, G., "In situ growth rate measurements and length control during chemical vapor deposition of vertically aligned multiwall carbon nanotubes," Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 1851 (2003).
22. Hata, K., Futaba, D. N., Mizuno K., Namai T., Yumura M., Iijima S., "Water-assisted highly efficient synthesis of inpurity-free single-walled carbon nanotubes,"Science 306, 1362 (2004).