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Field electron emission (FE) is a quantum tunneling process in which electrons are injected from materials (usually metals)
into a vacuum under the influence of an applied electric field. In order to obtain usable electron current, the conventional
way is to increase the local field at the surface of an emitter. For a plane metal emitter with a typical work function of
5 eV, an applied field of over 1 000 V/μm is needed to obtain a significant current. The high working field (and/or the voltage
between the electrodes) has been the bottleneck for many applications of the FE technique. Since the 1960s, enormous effort
has been devoted to reduce the working macroscopic field (voltage). A widely adopted idea is to sharpen the emitters to get
a large surface field enhancement. The materials of emitters should have good electronic conductivity, high melting points,
good chemical inertness, and high mechanical stiffness. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are built with such needed properties. As
a quasi-one-dimensional material, the CNT is expected to have a large surface field enhancement factor. The experiments have
proved the excellent FE performance of CNTs. The turn-on field (the macroscopic field for obtaining a density of 10 μA/cm2) of CNT based emitters can be as low as 1 V/μm. However, this turn-on field is too good to be explained by conventional theory.
There are other observations, such as the non-linear Fowler-Nordheim plot and multi-peaks field emission energy distribution
spectra, indicating that the field enhancement is not the only story in the FE of CNTs. Since the discovery of CNTs, people
have employed more serious quantum mechanical methods, including the electronic band theory, tight-binding theory, scattering
theory and density function theory, to investigate FE of CNTs. A few theoretical models have been developed at the same time.
The multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) should be assembled with a sharp metal needle of nano-scale radius, for which the
FE mechanism is more or less clear. Although MWCNTs are more common in present FE applications, the single-walled carbon nanotubes
(SWCNTs) are more interesting in the theoretical point of view since the SWCNTs have unique atomic structures and electronic
properties. It would be very interesting if people can predict the behavior of the well-defined SWCNTs quantitatively (for
MWCNTs, this is currently impossible). The FE as a tunneling process is sensitive to the apex-vacuum potential barrier of
CNTs. On the other hand, the barrier could be significantly altered by the redistribution of excessive charges in the micrometer
long SWCNTs, which have only one layer of carbon atoms. Therefore, the conventional theories based upon the hypothesis of
fixed potential (work function) would not be valid in this quasi-one-dimensional system. In this review, we shall focus on
the mechanism that would be responsible for the superior field emission characteristics of CNTs. We shall introduce a multi-scale
simulation algorithm that deals with the entire carbon nanotube as well as the substrate as a whole. The simulation for (5,
5) capped SWCNTs with lengths in the order of micrometers is given as an example. The results show that the field dependence
of the apex-vacuum electron potential barrier of a long carbon nanotube is a more pronounced effect, besides the local field
enhancement phenomenon. 相似文献
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Debasish Ghosh Pradip Ghosh Mohd Zamri Yusop Masaki Tanemura Yasuhiko Hayashi Tetsuo Tsuchiya Tomohiko Nakajima 《固体物理学:研究快报》2012,6(7):303-305
A fully transparent and flexible field emission device (FED) has been demonstrated. Single‐walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) coated on arylite substrate were used as electron emitters for the FED and a novel metavanadate phosphor coated on the SWCNTs/arylite film was used as transparent and flexible screen. The SWCNTs/arylite based emitters and the SWCNTs/arylite/metal‐vanadate‐based phosphor showed a transmittance value of 92.6% and 54%, respectively. The assembled device also showed satisfactory transparency and flexibility as well as producing significant current. Metavanadate phosphor is considered to be an excellent candidate due to its superior luminescence properties and easy fabrication onto transparent and flexible conductive substrate at room temperature while retaining reasonable transparency of the substrate. Thus, its transparency and flexibility will open the door to next‐generation FEDs. (© 2012 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
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利用化学镀方法对多壁碳纳米管(multi-walled carbon nanotubes,MWNTs)表面金属化镀镍(MWNTs/Ni),采用丝网印刷制备MWNTs/Ni场发射阴极,并在磁场辅助下热处理所得阴极,研究磁场辅助热处理对MWNTs/Ni阴极的场发射性能的影响,经300mT磁场辅助热处理的MWNTs/Ni的场发射阴极开启场强约为0.80V·μm~(-1),场增强因子β约为16068,对单根MWNTs/Ni在磁场中的受力情况进行建模分析,实验结果表明:磁场辅助热处理有助于提高MWNTs/Ni在阴极表面的直立分布,提高了MWNTs/Ni的场发射性能。 相似文献
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研究了Ar离子束轰击及温度对多壁碳纳米管阵列场发射性能的影响.经Ar离子轰击35min后,发现阵列顶端的Fe催化剂颗粒明显减少,弯曲的顶部被轰击掉,使碳纳米管的场发射电流明显减小而场发射像无明显改变.温度的增加引起碳纳米管的场发射电流也随之增加.还研 究了在透明阳极技术中涂在阳极的荧光粉对场发射电流的影响.对同一碳纳米管阵列样品,发现涂有荧光粉的透明阳极使测量到的场发射电流大幅度减小,只是未涂荧光粉阳极电流的 1/30左右.直接用二氧化锡导电膜作阳极时,测得样品的开启场强为1.0V/μm.沉积了荧光粉的二
关键词:
多壁碳纳米管
场发射 相似文献
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通过在碳纳米管(CNTs)表面沉积钛薄膜并经过高温真空退火处理,在CNTs表面形成了低功函数的钛碳化物.研究了钛碳化物改性CNTs的场发射性能,并利用X射线光电子能谱(XPS)对改性碳管进行了结构表征.实验结果表明,高温真空退火可使沉积在CNTs表面的钛原子与碳原子发生化学反应生成钛碳化物;经钛碳化物改性处理的CNTs的场发射性能明显改善,开启电场由改性前的121降低到104V/μm,当电场强度为234V/μm时,场发射电流密度由改性前的23增大到改性后的13.5mA/cm2,同时,CNTs的表面抗离子轰击能力增强,发射稳定性改善.对钛碳化物改性增强CNTs薄膜场发射性能的机理进行了分析.
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碳纳米管
钛碳化物
场发射
结构表征 相似文献
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Within the methodology [M. Khazaei, A.A. Farajian, Y. Kawazoe, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (2005) 177602] based on first-principles electronic structure calculations, the effects of Cs treatment on current emissions and emission patterns of capped carbon nanotubes are considered at low deposition densities when the nanotubes are under an electric field 0.2 V/Å. The results show that the current emission from the cap with one adsorbed Cs is 3.4 times larger than the cap without any Cs. It is 9.6 times larger in the cap with two adsorbed Cs atoms. After Cs deposition the emission patterns become asymmetric (current emission from the carbon atoms located at the topmost pentagon ring close to Cs atoms is larger than the other atomic sites). There are very few localized states on Cs atoms. Hence, although the tunneling probability of electron emission from Cs atoms is significant, there is no current from Cs atoms. In addition, the effect of Cs on work function reduction of nanotubes is explained in terms of Cs deposition densities and the surface dipole moments. 相似文献
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运用第一性原理研究了不同锥角和结构的碳纳米锥 (CNC) 电子场发射性能.结果表明:随外电场 (Eadd) 增强,CNC电子结构变化显著,费米能级 (Ef) 处态密度 (DOS) 明显增大;赝能隙减小;体系电荷移向尖端.DOS,HOMO/LUMO及Mulliken电荷分析表明:CNC的电子场发射性能除依赖于尖端结构外,很大程度上还取决于锥角大小,特别顶层6个原子的CNC3和CNC4场发射性能
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碳纳米锥
电子场发射
第一性原理 相似文献
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运用密度泛函理论研究了锥顶碳纳米管的结构稳定性与电子场致发射性能.结果表明:在外电场作用下,该体系的结构稳定性明显优于碳纳米锥体、C30半球封口的碳纳米管,且电子发射性能与锥角大小、锥顶构型密切相关,特别是锥角38.9°及棱脊型顶部的cone1@(6,6)综合性能最优,用其作为场致发射源的阴极时可显著提高发射电流密度并延长器件的使用寿命.
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锥顶碳纳米管
电子场致发射
结构稳定性
密度泛函理论 相似文献
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利用场发射显微镜和四极质谱计研究了充入高纯O2的四极质谱和O2对单壁碳纳米管场发射的影响.单壁碳纳米管经过约1000℃的热处理得到清洁态场发射像后,充入O2,分别测量了O2吸附和脱附后场发射的I V特性.实验观测到在单壁碳纳米管上O2的吸附使场发射电流减小,说明逸出功增加.在10-4Pa的O2压强下对单壁碳纳米管进行约1000℃的热处理,可以产生氧化刻蚀作用,观测到场发射像的变化,并测量了氧化刻蚀产生的I V特性变化.
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单壁碳纳米管
场发射显微镜
场发射
四极质谱 相似文献
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以纳米碳管阵列为研究对象,利用镜像悬浮球模型及Fowler-Nordheim电流密度公式,对纳米碳管阵列的场发射电流密度进行计算,进而综合考虑场发射增强因子及场发射电流密度对纳米碳管阵列场发射性能进行定量优化.参考碳管阵列场发射电流密度最大值及场发射增强因子,表明当纳米碳管阵列间距为碳管高度十分之一时,纳米碳管阵列的场发射性能得到优化.与以前的理论估算结果相比,优化的阵列间距进一步减小.当纳米碳管间距过大,场发射增强因子增加,而场发射电流密度会在更大程度上减小;当纳米碳管密度较大时,场发射增强因子受到静电
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纳米碳管
场发射
增强因子
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利用场发射显微镜(FEM)和四极质谱计分别研究了经过热处理的单壁碳纳米管的场发射图像和热处理过程中样品脱附的残气质谱.当热处理温度达到1000℃左右时得到了单壁碳纳米管的场发射像,此像可能是顶端开口的单根(16,0)锯齿形单壁碳纳米管的具有原子可分辨的场发射图像.四极质谱分析结果表明,在此温度范围W针尖晶粒间隙中有O原子和C原子释放出来.它们对单壁碳纳米管顶端的修饰是我们能观察到这些碳纳米管场发射像的可能原因.
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单壁碳纳米管(SWCNTs)
场发射显微镜(FEM)
四极质谱 相似文献
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Enhanced field emission properties of screen-printed doubled-walled carbon nanotubes by polydimethylsiloxane elastomer 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Field emission (FE) properties of double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) treated by polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer with different heating temperature have been systematically studied. The current density of treated DWCNT films decreases with the increase of heating temperature. The screen-printed DWCNTs treated by PDMS elastomer with drying temperature 150 °C for 20 min have the best FE performance with a marvelous field enhancement factor (β = 20194). The optimized FE performance is attributed to the morphological change of DWCNT films after PDMS elastomer treatment and the change of separation energy for the CNT-substrate interface. It is proved that the PDMS treatment is a facile and effective method for field emission display (FED) application, especially for low-temperature FED preparation. 相似文献
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Electron emission properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) assembled on a tungsten tip were investigated using field emission microscopy (FEM). The transmission electron microscopy (TEM) micrograph confirmed the existence of an SWCNT bundle on the W tip. Under appropriate experimental conditions,a series of FEM patterns with atomic resolution were obtained. These patterns arose possibly from the field emission of the open end of an individual (16,0) SWCNT protruding from the SWCNT bundle. The magnification factor and the resolution under our experimental conditions were calculated theoretically. If the value of the compression factor β was set at β= 1.76, the calculated value of the magnification factor was in agreement with the measured value. The resolving powerof FEM was determined by the resolution equation given by Gomer. The resolutionof 0.277 nm could be achieved under the typical electric field of 5.0×107 V/cm, which was close to the interatomic separation 0.246 nm between carbon atoms along the zigzag edge at the open end for the (16, 0) SWCNT. Consequently, our experimental results were further supported by our theoretical calculation. 相似文献
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采用高温热解法在860℃分别制备出了碳、碳氮和硼碳氮纳米管,提纯后利用丝网印刷工艺分别将它们制备成薄膜,并测试了它们的场发射性能.结果表明:碳纳米管、碳氮纳米管和硼碳氮纳米管薄膜的开启电场分别为2.22,1.1和4.4V/μm,当电场增加到5.7V/μm时,它们的电流密度分别达到1400,3000μA/cm2和小于50μA/cm2.碳和碳氮纳米管薄膜的场增强因子分别为10062和11521.可见,碳氮纳米管的场发射性能优于碳纳米管,而硼碳氮纳米管的场发射性能比前两者要差.解释了这三种纳米管场发射性能差别的原因.
关键词:
碳纳米管
碳氮纳米管
硼碳氮纳米管
场发射 相似文献