Field emission from a large area of vertically-aligned carbon nanofibers with nanoscale tips and controlled spatial geometry

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1362-1368

  Yun, Jia ^a   Wang, Rui ^b   Choi, W K ^a,b   Thong, J T L ^a,b   Thompson, C V ^a,c   Zhu, Mei ^b   Foo, Y L ^d   Hong, M H ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST-EFFECTIVE METHODS; FIBER ASPECT RATIO; FIELD EMISSION PROPERTY; HEIGHT RATIO; IN-LINE; INTERFERENCE LITHOGRAPHY; NANO-METER SCALE; NANOSCALE TIP; PYRAMID ARRAYS; SPATIAL GEOMETRY;

ASPECT RATIO; CARBON NANOFIBERS; FIELD EMISSION;

CARBON FIBERS;

EID: 75749127351     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.12.026     Document Type: Article

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