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Carbon Nanotube-Based 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional Field Emitter Structures

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JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS
Volume 50, Issue 2, Pages 483-490

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11664-020-08582-0

Keywords

Foam; foil; carbon nanotubes; field emission

Funding

  1. Naval Research Board (NRB), India [NRB-369/MAT/15-16]

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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) show promising field emission properties on foams compared to foils, due to the high surface area of the foam structure facilitating CNT growth and enhanced field emission response. Among the samples studied, CNTs prepared on nickel foam exhibit the best field emission performance with low turn-on field, high field enhancement factor, and stable electron emission.
Attractive attributes of carbon nanotubes (CNTs),, which include high aspect ratio, excellent electrical and thermal conductivity, high melting point, and longer lifetime, have made this one-dimensional material a promising candidate for next-generation field emitters. In the present work, CNTs were grown directly on copper foil, copper foam, nickel foil and nickel foam through chemical vapor deposition. A comparison between CNT-based two-dimensional emitters, i.e. CNTs synthesized on copper and nickel foils, CNT-based three-dimensional (3D) emitters, i.e. CNTs developed on foams of copper and nickel, have been demonstrated. We observed that CNTs on foams exhibited better field emission compared to CNTs synthesized on foils. This is due to the multistage structure of the 3D foams which provides high surface area for CNT growth and hence enhanced field emission response. In the present work, a CNT sample prepared on nickel foam was observed to exhibit better field emission response compared to the other samples synthesized in the present study. This particular sample demonstrateda very low turn-on field of 0.93 V/mu m, excellent field enhancement factor of 13,343 and good stability of electron emission. [GRAPHICS] .

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