Field emission with ultralow turn on voltage from metal decorated carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 7763-7770

  Sridhar, Srividya ^a   Tiwary, Chandrasekhar ^b,e   Vinod, Soumya ^b   Taha Tijerina, Jose Jaime ^b   Sridhar, Srividvatha ^b   Kalaga, Kaushik ^b   Sirota, Benjamin ^d   Hart, Amelia H C ^b   Ozden, Sehmus ^b   Sinha, Ravindra Kumar ^a   Harsh, ^c   Vajtai, Robert ^b   Choi, Wongbong ^d   Kordás, Krisztián ^f   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^b  

^a DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

edge effect; field emission; metal decoration; screening effect; work function

Indexed keywords

FIELD EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; FIELD EMISSION DISPLAYS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; MICROELECTRONICS; SCALABILITY; WORK FUNCTION;

CURRENT DEGRADATION; EDGE EFFECT; FIELD-EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; METAL DECORATION; METAL-DECORATED CARBON NANOTUBES; SCALABLE METHODS; SCREENING EFFECT; STABLE EMISSIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84906693623     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn500921s     Document Type: Article

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