Charge injection from carbon nanofibers into hexane under ambient conditions

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3514-3518

  Agiral A ^a,b   Eral, H B ^c   Van Den Ende, D ^c   Gardeniers, J G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Charge injection; field emisssion; Fowler Nordheim; free electron chemistry

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; COUNTER ELECTRODES; EMISSION CURRENT; FIELD EMISSSION; FOWLER-NORDHEIM; FOWLER-NORDHEIM BEHAVIOR; FREE ELECTRON; INTERELECTRODE DISTANCE; LIQUID FIELD; LIQUID HEXANE; NEW APPLICATIONS;

CARBON NANOFIBERS; CHARGE INJECTION; COATED WIRE ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; HEXANE;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 80053194059     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2011.2160947     Document Type: Article

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