Effect of series resistance on field emission characteristics of nano-carbon cathode

Author

Asada, Yuji ; Yamashita, Masahiro ; Yamakami, Tomohiko ; Hayashibe, Rinpei ; Kamimura, Kiichi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Shinshu Univ., Nagano, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

9-13 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

To estimate the effects of series resistance on the field emission current associated with an array of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and nanowalls (CNWs), the model of the floating spheres or lines between anode and cathode plates was proposed. An approximate formula for the field enhancement factor was derived, showing that the series resistance of a CNT array critically affects the field emission of vertically aligned carbon nanotube cathode, and the effect of the series resistance was not the limiting factor to the emission current in the arrayed CNWs cold cathode.

Keywords

anodes; carbon nanotubes; cathodes; electron field emission; nanotechnology; CNT array; anode; arrayed CNW cold cathode; cathode plates; field emission characteristics; field emission current; field enhancement factor; floating spheres; nanocarbon cathode; nanowall carbon nanotube array; series resistance effect; vertically aligned carbon nanotube cathode; Carbon dioxide; Carbon nanotubes; Cathodes; Current density; Iron; Materials; Resistance; carbon-nanotube; field-emission; seriesresistance; theoretical calculation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference (IVNC), 2012 25th International

Conference_Location

Jeju

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1983-6

Electronic_ISBN

pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVNC.2012.6316879

Filename

6316879