Temperature dependent field emission performances of carbon nanotube arrays: Speculation on oxygen desorption and defect annealing

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 258, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 7094-7098

  Deng, Jian Hua ^a   Yang, Yu Mei ^a   Zheng, Rui Ting ^a   Cheng, Guo An ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Annealing; Field emission; Multi walled carbon nanotubes; Oxygen desorption; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; DEFECTS; DESORPTION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FIELD EMISSION; OXYGEN; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; YARN;

CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAY; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; EMISSION PERFORMANCE; FIELD EMISSION PROPERTY; OXYGEN DESORPTION; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROMETERS; STABILITY BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 84861092927     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2012.03.184     Document Type: Article

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