Field emission from non-uniform carbon nanotube arrays

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-6

  Dall'Agnol, Fernando F ^a   den Engelsen, Daniel ^a  

^a Center for Information Technology   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube array; CNT array; Field emission simulation; Field emitter array; Field emitter morphology; Non uniform array

Indexed keywords

FIELD EMISSION;

CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAY; CNT ARRAYS; FIELD EMITTER; FIELD EMITTER ARRAYS; NONUNIFORM ARRAYS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84881248332     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-319     Document Type: Article

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