The Fowler-Nordheim plot behavior and mechanism of field electron emission from ZnO tetrapod structures

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5585-5590

  Al Tabbakh, Ahmed A ^a   More, Mahendra A ^b   Joag, Dilip S ^b   Mulla, Imtiaz S ^c   Pillai, Vijayamohanan K ^c  

^a AL NAHRAIN UNIVERSITY   (Iraq)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^c NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

directed assembly; holography; nanocomposite; nanoparticles; photopolymerization

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION FACTOR; DIRECTED ASSEMBLY; EMITTING MATERIAL; ENERGY BAND STRUCTURE; FIELD ELECTRON EMISSIONS; FIELD EMISSION MEASUREMENTS; FN PLOTS; FOWLER-NORDHEIM PLOTS; HIGH-FIELD; LOW-FIELD REGION; TETRAPOD STRUCTURES; ZNO;

BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MOBILITY; FIELD EMISSION; HOLOGRAPHY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; ZINC OXIDE;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 78049346686     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1008403     Document Type: Article

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