Fabrication and field emission performance of arrays of vacuum microdiodes containing CuO nanowire emitters grown directly on glass without a catalyst

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 906-911

  Shao, Peng Rui ^a   Deng, Shao Zhi ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   Xu, Ning Sheng ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CuO nanowires; emitters; field emission; vacuum microdiodes arrays

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953208012     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-010-4147-7     Document Type: Article

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