Site-specific nucleation and controlled growth of a vertical tellurium nanowire array for high performance field emitters

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 2013, Pages

  Safdar, Muhammad ^a   Zhan, Xueying ^a   Niu, Mutong ^b   Mirza, Misbah ^a   Zhao, Qing ^c   Wang, Zhenxing ^a   Zhang, Jinping ^b   Sun, Lianfeng ^a   He, Jun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED GROWTH; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; FIELD EMISSION MEASUREMENTS; FIELD ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; NANOSTRUCTURE ARRAYS; NANOSTRUCTURE MORPHOLOGIES; ORDERED NANOWIRE ARRAYS; TELLURIUM NANOWIRES;

FIELD EMISSION; TELLURIUM; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84876490534     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/18/185705     Document Type: Article

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