氧化锌纳米线的场发射

热蒸发法在硅基底上制备了任意取向的氧化锌纳米线阵列。经过热蒸发过程，硅基底表面覆盖了大量均匀分布的氧化锌岛，在这些岛上生长出了直径为几十纳米的非定向纳米线。出于实用考虑，基底周围的温度在制备过程中保持在500°C以下。从这些氧化锌纳米线获得了场发射。测得10μA/cm2所对应的开启场强为3.0V/μm。并且用透明阳极技术研究了发射中心分布。观察到场发射来自于整个样品表面。从这些结果可以看出氧化锌纳米线在平板显示器中有着巨大的应用潜力.     

基于图形化生长纳米氧化锌场致发射阴极阵列的研究

采用光刻技术在覆盖有氧化锌(ZnO)薄膜的ITO玻璃片衬底上实现图形化生长,结合水热法在衬底上制备出结构完整、排列一致的ZnO矩形和圆环型单元阵列。在图形化的基础上二次生长ZnO纳米锥阵列,锥长度最大可达到10μm,远大于一次生长的长度,并且发现锥顶有很多精细的类似针状的纳米量级微细结构。分析了非图形化、图形化一次以及图形化二次生长的ZnO纳米锥阵列的场致发射性能。使用图形化二次生长的ZnO纳米锥阴极阵列制作了12.7cm(5inch)的场发射显示器(FED),能实现全屏发光。实验结果表明,图形化二次生长的ZnO纳米锥阵列发射电流密度为最大,可达0.6mA/cm2,其开启场强为2.5V/μm。图形化生长ZnO纳米锥的方法是一种能较好改善材料场发射性能的好方法,为寻求良好场发射性能材料的制备提供了一条有效的实验途径。     

氧化锌纳米线的紫外光耦合增强场电子发射特性

本文采用热化学气相沉积方法制备氧化锌纳米线阵列, 研究氧化锌纳米线阵列在紫外光辐照下的场电子发射特性. 实验结果表明, 在紫外光辐照下, 氧化锌纳米线场发射开启电压降低, 发射电流明显增大. 机理分析认为, 氧化锌纳米线紫外光增强的场发射源自场电子发射与半导体耦合作用, 紫外光激发价带电子跃迁到导带和缺陷能级使发射电子数量增加, 同时, 光生电子发射降低了发射材料表面的有效功函数, 从而显著增强场电子发射性能. 氧化锌纳米线具有紫外光耦合增强场电子发射特性, 在光传感、冷阴极平板显示和场发射电子源等方面具有潜在的应用价值.     

薄膜后栅型SnO_2场发射显示器的制备及性能研究

利用光刻、阳极氧化和剥离技术在玻璃基底制备薄膜后栅型场发射阵列,采用丝网印刷技术将一维SnO2纳米发射材料转移至后栅结构的阴极电极上,借助光学显微镜和扫描电镜观测薄膜后栅型场发射阴极阵列,利用ANSYS软件模拟了不同条件下阴极电极附近电子运动轨迹.结果表明,一维SnO2纳米线在阴极电极衬底上分布均匀,电子束斑随着阳压的...     

氧化锌纳米棒场发射性能研究

采用简单物理气相沉积法制备出取向和非取向的氧化锌纳米棒，他们的场致电子发射性能测量结果表明，ZnO纳米棒具有较好的场发射性能，但是高度取向的ZnO纳米棒阵列并不利于获得高的场致电子发射电流密度.这可能是由于高密度ZnO纳米棒之间具有较高的屏蔽效应，降低了ZnO纳米棒阵列的场放大因子，从而影响了其场发射性能.相反，非取向ZnO纳米棒由于相互之间的屏蔽效应比较弱，而且表面存在容易成为发射中心的微小突起，表现出较好的场发射效果.这些结果不仅有助于加深我们对准一维纳米材料场致电子发射性能的理解，也为未来场发射电子器件的实际应用提供了可靠的依据. 关键词： 氧化锌 场发射 非取向     

利用胶体小球掩蔽刻蚀技术制备的半导体纳米阵列的场电子发射特性

利用胶体小球掩蔽刻蚀技术,制备了单晶硅纳米阵列,利用原子力显微镜观察了硅阵列的表面形貌,实验结果表明,硅柱阵列具有高密度和较好的均匀性。同时研究了单晶硅纳米阵列的场电子发射特性。为了提高样品的场发射性能,在所制备的单晶硅有序纳米阵列上生长了一层非晶碳薄膜。与单晶纳米硅柱阵列相比,覆盖有非晶碳膜的样品的场电子发射特性有了明显的改善,表现在场发射的开启电场下降,同时场发射增强因子得到增加。结果表明非晶碳膜确实能够降低电子发射的表面有效势垒,从而增强了场电子发射特性。     

取向和非取向In2O3纳米线的场发射研究

用自制的设备制备了取向和无取向氧化铟纳米线,并研究了In2O3纳米线的场发射性质,发现取向纳米线比非取向纳米线有着更好的场发射特性.取向纳米线的开启和阈值场强明显低于非取向纳米线,这可能是由于取向纳米线之间的场屏蔽效应较弱以及取向纳米线有较多的顶部发射端的缘故.     

Al掺杂四针状ZnO纳米结构的制备及其光致发光和场发射特性

采用热蒸发法成功制备了Al掺杂四针状ZnO纳米结构(T-AZO),利用扫描电子显微镜、X射线衍射仪、荧光光谱仪和场发射测试系统分别研究了不同Al摩尔分数对T-AZO纳米结构表面形貌、微结构、光致发光谱和场发射特性的影响。实验结果表明:T-AZO纳米结构呈现六角纤锌矿结构,Al掺杂对四针状ZnO纳米结构的形貌产生明显影响并且使紫外发射峰产生蓝移。实验中,当Al掺杂摩尔分数为3%时,场发射性能最好,其开启场强为1.33 V/μm,场增强因子为8 420。     

纳米金刚石掺混纳米氧化锌的场发射特性

利用水热法制备了菊花状的氧化锌纳米棒,并进行表征,将纳米氧化锌掺入纳米金刚石中配制成电泳液,超声分散后电泳沉积到钛衬底上,再经热处理后进行场发射特性的测试.结果表明:未掺混的金刚石阴极样品的开启电场为7.3V/μm,在20V/μm的电场下,场发射电流密度为81μA/cm2;掺混后阴极样品的场发射开启电场降低到4.7~6.0V/μm,在20V/μm电场下,场发射电流密度提高到140~158μA/cm2.原因是纳米ZnO掺入后,增强了涂层的电子输运能力、增加了有效发射体数目,提高了场增强因子β,而金刚石保证了热处理后涂层与衬底的良好键合,形成了欧姆接触,降低了场发射电流的热效应.场发射电流的稳定性随掺混ZnO量的增加而下降,要兼顾场发射电流密度及其稳定性,适量掺入ZnO可有效提高纳米金刚石的场发射性能.     

纳米金刚石的变温场发射

研究了温度变化对沉积在钛基底上的纳米金刚石的场发射特性的影响,发现纳米金刚石场发射电流随温度和电场的升高而增大,场发射特性偏离了传统的Fowler-Nordheim理论,场发射电流的稳定性基本没有变化.分析了场发射电流增大的机理,表明是由于纳米金刚石的尺度效应以及外电场下金刚石产生了大量的热载流子共同作用的结果.研究还表明基底钛在温度升高到一定程度后,在外加电场下会有较大的电流产生,对场发射造成较大的影响,表明基底钛具有一定的温度敏感性和电压敏感性. 关键词： 场发射 纳米金刚石 尺度效应 热载流子     

Field emission property of printed CNTs-mixed ZnO nanoneedles

ZnO nanoneedles were synthesized via thermal evaporation method without any catalyst. Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy investigations showed that these products presented a nanoneedle structure. To enhance the field emission (FE) properties of screen printed ZnO nanoneedles, a given amount (0.05 g) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) mixed with (0.5 g) ZnO nanoneedles paste via screen printed method and heat-treatment at (600 °C, 500 °C and 450 °C) was presented. The CNTs-mixed ZnO nanoneedles heat-treated at 450 °C had the lowest turn-on field of 3.75 V/μm, highest field emission current of 0.16 mA at 7.5 V/μm and highest β of 830. An efficiency FE enhancement of 450 °C sample was attributed to melioration of conductance between ZnO nanoneedles and ITO surface by CNTs.     

Catalyst-free highly vertically aligned ZnO nanoneedle arrays grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy

This work describes the growth of highly vertically aligned ZnO nanoneedle arrays on wafer-scale catalyst-free c-plane sapphire substrates by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy under high Zn flux conditions. The photoluminescence spectrum of the as-grown samples reveals strong free exciton emissions and donor-bound exciton emissions with an excellent full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 1.4 meV. The field emission of highly vertically aligned ZnO nanoneedle arrays closely follows the Fowler–Nordheim theory. The turn-on electric field was about 5.9 V/µm with a field enhancement factor β of around 793.     

Improve the field emission uniformity of carbon nanotubes treated by ball-milling process

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) deposited by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) were treated by ball milling. The morphologies and field emission properties of the treated CNTs depending on milling time were studied. The emission turn-on field is increased, and the field emission current density is reduced, when the milling time increased from 0.5 to 3 h. The as-deposited long CNTs were cut to short CNTs (∼1 h) and micro-particles (>1 h) with increasing of the milling time. It is found that the optimized milling time is 0.5-1 h, the treated CNTs showed excellent field emission properties, such as low turn-on field, high emission current density and uniform luminescence spots distribution.     

No-catalyst growth of vertically-aligned AlN nanocone field electron emitter arrays with high emission performance at low temperature

The AlN nanostructures with a wide band-gap of 6.28 eV are considered as ideal cold cathode materials because of their low electron-affinity. Many methods have been devoted to fabricating AlN nanostructures, but high growth temperature over 800°C and the use of the catalysts in most methods limit their practical application and result in their poor field-emission behaviours in uniformity. This paper reports that without any catalysts, a simple chemical vapour deposition method is used to synthesize aligned AlN nanocone arrays at 550°C on silicon substrate or indium tin oxide glass. Field emission measurements show that these nanocones prepared at low temperature have an average turn-on field of 6 V/μm and a threshold field of 11.7 V/μm as well as stable emission behaviours at high field, which suggests that they have promising applications in field emission area.     

Enhanced Field Emission from Large-Area Arrays of W18O49 Pencil-Like Nanostructure

Field enhancement and field screening are two major factors affecting field emission performance of arrays of quasi one-dimensional nanostructures. We have observed enhanced field emission from large-area arrays of W₁₈O₄₉ pencil-like nanostructure due to both the effects of high aspect ratio and enlarged spacing between neighboring nanostructures. These arrays may be grown on silicon substrates by the multi-step thermal evaporation process. The spacing of nanotip-to-nanotip between neighboring nanostructures may be increased by adjusting the growth temperature. The arrays are observed to have a typical turn-on field as low as about 1.26 MV/m and a threshold field as low as about 3.39 MV/m, resulting in increasing field enhancement and decreasing field screening effect.     

Enhanced Field Emission from Vertical ZnO Nanoneedles on Micropyramids

Vertical ZnO nanoneedles with sharp tips are secondarily grown on tips of primarily grown ZnO micropyramids by a vapour transport process. The field emission （FE） properties exhibit a lower turn-on electric field and a higher field enhancement factor as compared with vertical ZnO microrods. This result indicates that ZnO nanoneedles have good optimum shapes for FE due to electron accumulation at sharp tips.     

Field emission from self-assembly structure of carbon-nanotube films

Chemical vapor deposited (CVD) carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays were immersed in ethanol to make shrunk structures with separate nanotube “walls” for better field emission properties, such structures decreased the screening effects and reduced the turn-on electric field at 10 μA/cm² from 1.68 to 1.23 V/μm. The field enhancement factor was calculated to increase by 23% according to Fowler–Nordheim (F–N) equation. The number of emission sites also increased and their distribution was more uniform.     

Uniform arrays of carbon nanotubes applied in the field emission devices

Carbon nanotubes(CNTs)were grown into anodic aluminum oxide(AAO)channels by chemical vapor deposition(CVD)using C2H2/N2mixtures as feeding gas,which can be used as field emitters.The bottom surface of AAO template was etched slightly and the tips of CNTs were explored as the field emission arrays which were uniform and vertical.Field emission characterization showed a low turn-on field about 3.25 V/m and high emission current about 30 mA/cm2with the electric field about 4 V/m.These superior field emission characteristics could be attributed to low density of vertical CNTs and higher conductivity of the substrate.     

Creation of novel ZnO nanostructures: self-assembled nanoribbon/nanoneedle junction networks and faceted nanoneedles on hexagonal microcrystals

ZnO nanoribbon/nanoneedle junction networks and faceted nanoneedle–microwhisker structures were grown for the first time by the evaporation of ZnS in the presence of oxygen under different reaction conditions. The nanoribbons/nanoneedles crossed each other in three specific directions to form network-like 2D junction structures and displayed a unique and perfect growth mode. For the faceted nanoneedle structure, the nanoneedle grew epitaxially on the (0002) plane of a ZnO microcrystal. These ZnO nanostructures might have potential applications in the development of nanoscale electronics and optics. PACS 61.46.+w; 81.07.Vb; 81.16.Be     

Synthesis and photoluminescence,field emission properties of stalactite-like ZnS-ZnO composite nanostructures

Wurtzite stalactite-like quasi-one-dimensional ZnS nanoarrays with ZnO protuberances were synthesized through a thermal evaporation route. The structure and morphology of the samples are studied and the growth mechanism is discussed. X-ray diffraction (XRD) results show both the ZnS stem and the ZnO protuberances have wurtzite structure and show preferred [001] oriented growth. The photoluminescence and field emission properties have also been investigated. Room temperature photoluminescence result shows it has a strong green light emission, which has potential application for green light emitter. Experimental results also show that the stalactite arrays have a good field emission property, with turn-on field of 11.4 V/μm, and threshold field of 16 V/μm. The ZnO protuberances on the ZnS stem might enhance the field emission notably. PACS 81.05.Dz; 81.07.Bc; 81.16.-c; 78.60.Hk; 85.45.Db