Carbon nanotube bundle array cold cathodes for THz vacuum tube sources

Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1338-1350

  Manohara, Harish M ^a   Toda, Risaku ^a   Lin, Robert H ^a   Liao, Anna ^a   Bronikowski, Michael J ^a,c   Siegel, Peter H ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Atomate Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; CNTs; Field emission; High frequency sources; Nanoklystron; Vacuum tube

Indexed keywords

APPLIED FIELD; BEAM FOCUSING; CARBON NANOTUBE BUNDLE; CATASTROPHIC FAILURES; CNTS; COLD CATHODES; FIELD EMISSION SOURCES; HIGH FIELD; HIGH FREQUENCY SOURCES; NANOKLYSTRON; ROBUST OPERATION; VACUUM TUBE;

COLD CATHODE TUBES; ELECTRODES; FIELD EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; VACUUM;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 70349627493     PISSN: 18666892     EISSN: 18666906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10762-009-9547-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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