Review of field emission from carbon nanotubes: Highlighting measuring energy spread

Carbon Nanostructures

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-32

  Hamanaka, M H M O ^a,b   Mammana, V P ^a   Tatsch, P J ^b  

^a CTI   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Electron source; Energy spread; Field emission property; High occupied molecular orbital; Lower unoccupied molecular orbital

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SOURCES; ELECTRONS; FIELD EMISSION; MOLECULAR ORBITALS;

CONDUCTION ELECTRONS; DENSITY OF STATE; EMISSION PROPERTIES; ENERGY SPREADS; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPY; FIELD EMISSION PROPERTY; SINGLE NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84875205033     PISSN: 21913005     EISSN: 21913013     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31960-0_1     Document Type: Chapter

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