Very stable electron field emission from strontium titanate coated carbon nanotube matrices with low emission thresholds

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 117-125

  Pandey, Archana ^a   Prasad, Abhishek ^a   Moscatello, Jason P ^a   Engelhard, Mark ^b   Wang, Chongmin ^b   Yap, Yoke Khin ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; field emission; poly(methyl methacrylate); strontium titanate

Indexed keywords

AS-GROWN; CONFORMAL COATINGS; ELECTRON FIELD EMISSION; EMISSION DENSITY; EMISSION STABILITY; EMISSION THRESHOLD; IN-FIELD; LOW EMISSION; OPTIMUM THICKNESS; REPULSION FORCE; SIMULATION AND MODELING; SUPPRESSED SCREENING; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; WAVE AMPLIFICATION; X-RAY GENERATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ESTERS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); STRONTIUM TITANATES; WORK FUNCTION;

FIELD EMISSION;

CARBON NANOTUBE; OXIDE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM TITANIUM OXIDE; TITANIUM;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OXIDES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; STRONTIUM; TITANIUM;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872869355     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303351g     Document Type: Article

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