UV Enhanced Field Emission Properties of ZnO Nanosheets with Different NaOH Concentration

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 776-781

  Lai, Lin Tzu ^a   Young, Sheng Joue ^b   Liu, Yi Hsing ^a   Lin, Zheng Dong ^a   Chang, Shoou Jinn ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

field emission; ZnO nanosheet

Indexed keywords

FIELD EMISSION; ZINC OXIDE;

ENHANCED FIELD EMISSION; EXCITED ELECTRONS; FIELD EMISSION DEVICES; HIGH SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; NANOSHEET FILMS; NAOH CONCENTRATION; UV ILLUMINATIONS; ZNO NANOSHEETS;

NANOSHEETS;

EID: 84940186731     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2015.2443837     Document Type: Article

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