Nanostructured LaB6 field emitter with lowest apical work function

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3539-3544

  Zhang, Han ^a   Tang, Jie ^a   Yuan, Jinshi ^a   Ma, Jun ^a   Shinya, Norio ^a   Nakajima, Kiyomi ^a   Murakami, Hideyuki ^a   Ohkubo, Tadakatsu ^a   Qin, Lu Chang ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron emission; field emission; field emission microscopy; field ion miscroscopy; lanthanum hexaboride; nanowire

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELECTRON EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; IONS; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; NANOWIRES; WORK FUNCTION;

ATOMIC ARRANGEMENT; EMISSION STABILITY; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPY; FIELD ION MICROSCOPY; FIELD ION MISCROSCOPY; LANTHANUM HEXABORIDES; LOW WORK FUNCTION; RELIABLE METHODS;

BORON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77956440470     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl101752z     Document Type: Article

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