UV enhanced field emission performance of Mg-doped ZnO nanorods

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1541-1545

  Liu, Y H ^a   Young, Sheng Joue ^b   Ji, L W ^b   Meen, T H ^b   Hsiao, C H ^a   Huang, C S ^c   Chang, Shoou Jinn ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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

Author keywords

Field emitters; Hydrothermal method; Mg doped ZnO; Nanorod

Indexed keywords

FIELD EMISSION; SUBSTRATES; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

EMISSION PERFORMANCE; ENHANCED FIELD EMISSION; FIELD EMITTER; FIELD ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; LOW-TEMPERATURE HYDROTHERMAL METHODS; MG-DOPED ZNO; UV-LIGHT ILLUMINATION;

NANORODS;

EID: 84899953209     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2014.2312853     Document Type: Article

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