Field emission properties of as-grown multiwalled carbon nanotube films

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 163-169

  Giubileo, F ^a,b   Di Bartolomeo, A ^a,b   Sarno, M ^b   Altavilla, C ^b   Santandrea, S ^a,b   Ciambelli, P ^b   Cucolo, A M ^a,b  

^a CNR SPIN SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-GROWN; BUCKY PAPER; CATALYTIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CURRENT STABILITY; FIELD EMISSION CURRENTS; FIELD EMISSION PROPERTY; FIELD ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; FOWLER-NORDHEIM PLOTS; FREESTANDING FILMS; HIGH VACUUM; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; METALLIC CANTILEVER; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE FILMS; SUBMICRON; TIP-SAMPLE DISTANCE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON FILMS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ETHYLENE; FIELD EMISSION; FILTRATION;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 80053617895     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.08.015     Document Type: Article

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