Nano Au-decorated boron nitride nanotubes: Conductance modification and field-emission enhancement

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Chen, Hua ^a   Zhang, Hongzhou ^a   Fu, Lan ^a   Chen, Ying ^a   Williams, James S ^a   Yu, Chao ^b   Yu, Dapeng ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; BORON NITRIDE; CLADDING (COATING); CUBIC BORON NITRIDE; CURRENT DENSITY; FULLERENES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; NITRIDES; NONMETALS;

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES (BNNT); CRITICAL VALUES; ELECTRON FIELD EMITTERS; EMISSION CURRENT DENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; FIELD EMISSION (FE); FIELD EMISSION (FE) PROPERTIES; NANO AU; TURN-ON FIELD;

GOLD ALLOYS;

EID: 45749102440     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2943653     Document Type: Article

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