Enhanced Field Emission Performance of Hierarchical ZnO/Si Nanotrees with Spatially Branched Heteroassemblies

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 13564-13568

  Lv, Shasha ^a   Li, Zhengcao ^a   Chen, Chienhua ^a   Liao, Jiecui ^a   Wang, Guojing ^a   Li, Mingyang ^a   Miao, Wei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

band bending; branched heterostructures; field emission; silicon nanorods; ZnO nanowires

Indexed keywords

FIELD EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; NANORODS; NANOWIRES; ZINC OXIDE;

BANDBENDING; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ENHANCED FIELD EMISSION; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HIERARCHICAL ZNO; HYDROTHERMAL REACTION; ZNO NANOWIRES; ZNO NANOWIRES (NWS);

FIELD EMISSION DISPLAYS;

EID: 84932624351     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b02976     Document Type: Article

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