Uv enhanced indium-doped ZnO nanorod field emitter

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3901-3906

  Chang, Shoou Jinn ^a   Duan, Bi Gui ^a   Liu, Chung Wei ^a   Hsiao, Chih Hung ^a   Young, Sheng Joue ^b   Huang, Chien Sheng ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Field emission; hydrothermal; indium doped ZnO nanorods

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE QUALITY; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIELD ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; HYDROTHERMAL; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; INDIUM-DOPED ZNO; MORPHOLOGY AND STRUCTURES;

FIELD EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; NANORODS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC OXIDE;

INDIUM;

EID: 84887318737     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2013.2280910     Document Type: Article

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