Surface structure and field emission properties of cost effectively synthesized zinc oxide nanowire/multiwalled carbon nanotube heterojunction arrays

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 45, Issue 28, 2012, Pages

  Nayeri, F Dehghan ^a   Darbari, S ^a   Soleimani, E A ^a   Mohajerzadeh, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH DEPOSITION; CARBON NANOTUBE HETEROJUNCTIONS; FIELD EMISSION APPLICATION; FIELD EMISSION PROPERTY; FIELD-EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; LOW TEMPERATURES; PRECURSOR CONCENTRATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGE; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; THRESHOLD FIELDS; TIME DURATION; TURN-ON FIELD; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; ZINC OXIDE NANOWIRES; ZNO; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES; ZNO NANOWIRE ARRAYS; ZNO NANOWIRES;

FIELD EMISSION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOWIRES; PHOTOELECTRONS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84863532371     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/45/28/285101     Document Type: Article

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