High emission currents and low threshold fields in multi-wall carbon nanotube-polymer composites in the vertical configuration

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Sameera, I ^a   Bhatia, Ravi ^a   Prasad, V ^a   Menon, Reghu ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE-POLYMER COMPOSITES; ELECTROSTATIC SCREENING; FIELD-EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; FOWLER-NORDHEIM TUNNELING; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; HIGH EMISSION CURRENT; HIGHER WEIGHT; LOW THRESHOLDS; POLYSTYRENE COMPOSITES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; WEIGHT FRACTIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE FILMS; DIAGNOSIS; POLYSTYRENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FIELD EMISSION;

EID: 84857866005     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3685754     Document Type: Article

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