Field electron emission characteristics and physical mechanism of individual single-layer graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 6332-6336

  Xiao, Zhiming ^a   She, Juncong ^a   Deng, Shaozhi ^a   Tang, Zikang ^a,b   Li, Zhibing ^a   Lu, Jianming ^b   Xu, Ningsheng ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

2D regime; Field emission; Line current density; Microanode probe; Single layer grapheme; Upward bending FN plot

Indexed keywords

2D REGIME; FN PLOTS; LINE CURRENTS; MICROANODE; SINGLE LAYER;

ELECTRONS; GRAPHENE; PROBES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FIELD EMISSION;

EID: 78649542357     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101719r     Document Type: Article

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