Very high field emission from a carbon nanotube array with isolated subregions and balanced resistances

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3616-3621

  Lei, Wei ^a   Zhang, Xiaobing ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Zhao, Zhiwei ^a   Cui, Yiping ^a   Wang, Baoping ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jiangsu Information Display Engineering Research Center   (China)

Author keywords

Electron sources; field emission; isolated subregion; large current

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; AVERAGE CURRENT DENSITIES; CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAY; CATHODE AREA; CURRENT INCREASE; CURRENT OVERLOADS; EMISSION AREA; EMISSION UNIFORMITY; FIELD EMITTER ARRAYS; FIELD-EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; FIELD-EMISSION CURRENT DENSITY; FIELD-EMISSION ELECTRONS; ISOLATED SUBREGION; LARGE CURRENT; MICRO THRUSTER; NONLINEAR RELATIONS; NONUNIFORM FIELD; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOTAL CURRENT; TOTAL EMISSIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRON SOURCES; FIELD EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE TUBES; X RAY TUBES;

ELECTRON EMISSION;

EID: 80053200874     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2011.2162520     Document Type: Article

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