Carbon nanotube electron sources and applications

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1823, 2004, Pages 2239-2266

  De Jonge, Niels ^a   Bonard, Jean Marc ^b,c  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Rolex SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Display; Electron microscope; Field emission; Field emission lamp; X ray source

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244256234     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1438     Document Type: Review

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