CuO-nanowire field emitter prepared on glass substrate

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1161-1165

  Hsueh, H T ^a   Hsueh, T J ^b   Chang, S J ^c   Tsai, T Y ^a   Hung, F Y ^a   Chang, S P ^a   Weng, W Y ^a   Dai, B T ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b National Nano Devices Laboratories   (Taiwan)

^c Center for Micro/Nano Science and Technology   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CuO; field emission; nanowires (NWs)

Indexed keywords

ADHESION LAYER; AVERAGE DIAMETER; AVERAGE LENGTH; CUO; FIELD EMITTER; FIELD ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; GLASS SUBSTRATES; THERMAL-ANNEALING; TURN-ON FIELD;

FABRICATION; GLASS; SUBSTRATES;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 80052613865     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2011.2121092     Document Type: Article

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