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An ultrabright and monochromatic electron point source made of a LaB6 nanowire

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NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
卷 11, 期 3, 页码 273-+

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NNANO.2015.276

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  1. Development of System and Technology for Advanced Measurement and Analysis, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)
  2. Nanotechnology Network Project of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Japan
  3. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K13366, 15H01053] Funding Source: KAKEN

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Electron sources in the form of one-dimensional nanotubes and nanowires are an essential tool for investigations in a variety of fields, such as X-ray computed tomography, flexible displays, chemical sensors and electron optics applications. However, field emission instability and the need to work under high-vacuum or high-temperature conditions have imposed stringent requirements that are currently limiting the range of application of electron sources. Here we report the fabrication of a LaB6 nanowire with only a few La atoms bonded on the tip that emits collimated electrons from a single point with high monochromaticity. The nanostructured tip has a low work function of 2.07 eV (lower than that of Cs) while remaining chemically inert, two properties usually regarded as mutually exclusive. Installed in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) field emission gun, our tip shows a current density gain that is about 1,000 times greater than that achievable with W(310) tips, and no emission decay for tens of hours of operation. Using this new SEM, we acquired very low-noise, high-resolution images together with rapid chemical compositional mapping using a tip operated at room temperature and at 10-times higher residual gas pressure than that required for W tips.

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