• DocumentCode
    1919034
  • Title

    P2–7: Pulsed thermionic emission from carbon nanotube fibers

  • Author

    Ghemes, Adrian ; Neo, Yoichiro ; Mimura, Hidenori ; Inoue, Yoku

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Inst. of Electron., Shizuoka Univ., Hamamatsu, Japan
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    26-30 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    135
  • Lastpage
    136
  • Abstract
    Pulsed thermionic emission from multiwalled carbon nanotube fibers has been demonstrated. From fibers with diameter of 150 μm we obtained an emission current of 16 μA at a repetition rate of 1 kHz. A comparison between our CNT fibers and a tungsten filament is also presented.
  • Keywords
    carbon fibres; carbon nanotubes; nanofibres; thermionic electron emission; C; current 16 muA; emission current; frequency 1 kHz; multiwalled carbon nanotube fibers; pulsed thermionic emission; repetition rate; size 150 mum; tungsten filament; Anodes; Arrays; Carbon nanotubes; Electron tubes; Heating; Thermionic emission; Tungsten; carbon nanotube; chemical vapor deposition; thermionic emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference (IVNC), 2010 23rd International
  • Conference_Location
    Palo Alto, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7889-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7888-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IVNC.2010.5563128
  • Filename
    5563128