Ultrananocrystalline diamond-decorated silicon nanowire field emitters

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 13815-13822

  Palomino, Javier ^a   Varshney, Deepak ^a   Resto, Oscar ^a   Weiner, Brad R ^a   Morell, Gerardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

electron field emission; silicon nanowires; ultrananocrystalline diamond

Indexed keywords

DIAMONDS; ELECTRON EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION; NANOWIRES;

ELECTRON FIELD EMISSION; FIELD EMITTER; NOVEL ROUTE; SILICON NANOWIRES; TURN-ON FIELD; ULTRA-NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND; ULTRANANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMONDS; UNIFORM DIAMETER;

SILICON;

EID: 84906818927     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am503221t     Document Type: Article

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