Fabrication of vertically aligned single-crystalline lanthanum hexaboride nanowire arrays and investigation of their field emission

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Xu, Junqi ^a,b   Hou, Guanghua ^b   Li, Huiqiao ^a   Zhai, Tianyou ^a   Dong, Baoping ^b   Yan, Hailong ^b   Wang, Yanrui ^b   Yu, Benhai ^b   Bando, Yoshio ^c   Golberg, Dmitri ^c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b XINYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

arrays; field emission; LaB6; nanowires; temperature dependent

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION PROCESS; EFFECTIVE WORK FUNCTION; EMISSION CURRENT DENSITY; FIELD EMISSION PROPERTY; LAB6; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THRESHOLD ELECTRIC FIELDS;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FIELD EMISSION; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; MORPHOLOGY; NANONEEDLES; NANORODS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84882971945     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2013.25     Document Type: Article

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