Millimeter-long carbon nanotubes: Outstanding electron-emitting sources

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5072-5077

  Perea López, Néstor ^a,b   Rebollo Plata, Bernabé ^b   Briones León, Juan Antonio ^b   Morelos Gómez, Aarón ^b   Hernández Cruz, Daniel ^b   Hirata, Gustavo A ^c   Meunier, Vincent ^d   Botello Méndez, Andrés R ^e   Charlier, Jean Christophe ^e   Maruyama, Benji ^f   Muñoz Sandoval, Emilio ^b   López Urías, Florentino ^b   Terrones, Mauricio ^a,g   Terrones, Humberto ^a,e,h  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO POTOSINO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TECNOLÓGICA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^f AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; field emission; low field; very long nanotubes

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; FIELD EMISSION PROPERTY; FIELD ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; INTENSE ELECTRON BEAMS; LOW FIELD; PEAK CURRENT DENSITY; VERY LONG NANOTUBES; VISIBLE LIGHT;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON SOURCES; ELECTRONS; FIELD EMISSION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 79959799804     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201149y     Document Type: Article

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