Heating graphene to incandescence and the measurement of its work function by the thermionic emission method

Nano Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 553-560

  Zhu, Feng ^a,b   Lin, Xiaoyang ^a,b   Liu, Peng ^a,b   Jiang, Kaili ^a,b   Wei, Yang ^a,b   Wu, Yang ^a,b   Wang, Jiaping ^a,b   Fan, Shoushan ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter ^*  (China)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; graphene; thermionic emission; work function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899904013     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0423-1     Document Type: Article

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