Thermionic emission and tunneling at carbon nanotube-organic semiconductor interface

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 4993-4999

  Sarker, Biddut K ^a   Khondaker, Saiful I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

barrier height; carbon nanotube electrodes; charge injection; direct tunneling; Fowler Nordheim tunneling; organic semiconductor; thermionic emission

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; BARRIER HEIGHTS; CARBON NANOTUBE ELECTRODES; CHARGE CARRIER INJECTION; CURRENT DENSITY-VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DIRECT TUNNELING; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FOWLER-NORDHEIM TUNNELING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INJECTION BARRIERS; LOW BIAS; LOW TEMPERATURES; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; PENTACENES; SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACES; THERMAL EMISSIONS; TRAPEZOIDAL BARRIER; TUNNELING MECHANISM;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHARGE CARRIERS; CHARGE INJECTION; DIRECT INJECTION; ELECTRODES; THERMIONIC EMISSION;

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; NAPHTHACENE DERIVATIVE; PENTACENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NAPHTHACENES; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTORS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84862888790     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300544v     Document Type: Article

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