Large-scale growth of well-aligned SiC tower-like nanowire arrays and their field emission properties

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 526-533

  Wang, Lin ^a,b   Li, Chengming ^a   Yang, Yang ^b   Chen, Shanliang ^b   Gao, Fengmei ^b   Wei, Guodong ^b   Yang, Weiyou ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b NINGBO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

doping; field emission; nanoarrays; Polymeric precursors; Pyrolysis; SiC

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIELD EMISSION; NANOWIRES; POLYMERS; PYROLYSIS;

CURRENT EMISSIONS; ELECTRONIC NANODEVICES; FIELD EMISSION PROPERTY; NANOARRAYS; POLYMERIC PRECURSORS; PYROLYSIS OF POLYMERIC PRECURSORS; SIC; STRINGENT REQUIREMENT;

SILICON CARBIDE;

EID: 84921319272     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am506678x     Document Type: Article

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