• DocumentCode
    1887310
  • Title

    Stability of field-emitters a Kinetic Monte Carlo study

  • Author

    Jansson, V. ; Baibuz, E. ; Djurabekova, F.

  • Author_Institution
    Helsinki Inst. of Phys. & Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    13-17 July 2015
  • Firstpage
    28
  • Lastpage
    29
  • Abstract
    In this work we study the long-term stability of surface nano-structures that may function as field emitters. For this purpose, we have developed a new Kinetic Monte Carlo model for the surface diffusion. We have found that copper tips with an aspect ratio of about 8 may be stable for hours at room temperature, but collapses already within a microsecond at temperatures above 800 K.
  • Keywords
    Monte Carlo methods; circuit stability; field emitter arrays; surface diffusion; field emitters; kinetic Monte Carlo model; long-term stability; surface diffusion; surface nanostructures; Energy barrier; Kinetic theory; Monte Carlo methods; Stability analysis; Surface treatment; Thermal stability; Vacuum arcs; Coppar; Kinetic Monte Carlo; field emitters; surface diffusion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference (IVNC), 2015 28th International
  • Conference_Location
    Guangzhou
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-9356-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IVNC.2015.7225518
  • Filename
    7225518