An increase in the field emission from vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes caused by NH3 plasma treatment

Carbon

Volumn 52, Issue , 2013, Pages 468-475

  Chen, Guohai ^a   Neupane, Suman ^a   Li, Wenzhi ^a   Chen, Lina ^b   Zhang, Jiandi ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER STRUCTURE; CU SUBSTRATE; DIRECT CURRENT PLASMAS; EMISSION CURRENT; EMISSION PERFORMANCE; FIELD EMISSION PROPERTY; FIELD ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; MORPHOLOGY CHANGES; PLASMA TREATMENT; STRUCTURAL DEFECT; TAPERED STRUCTURE; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PLASMA ETCHING;

FIELD EMISSION;

EID: 84869495638     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.09.058     Document Type: Article

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