Carbon-nanotube cathodes on optical fibers

  • Xianqi Wei
  • , Weihua Liu
  • , Dengchao Zhao
  • , Xiaoli Wang
  • , Junhua Liu
  • , Hongzhong Liu
  • , Ke Yang
  • , Tuo Qu
  • , Xin Li

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Abstract

Well-aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) arrays were synthesized on series of fibers with different diameters to serve as field-emission cathode. Because the CNTs emitters reach out from the fiber curved surface, the distance between emitters varies with the diameter of the fiber. With the fiber diameter decreasing, the field emission enhancement of CNTs array increased because the screen effect decreased with the distance between emitters increasing. While the fiber diameter decreased from 200μm to 40μm, the turn-on voltage of CNTs array decreased from 610V to 200V, at the same time the emission current dramatic increased. Our approach to fabricate this structure of CNT tip has a potential application for future vacuum micro- and nano-electronics devices, especially in constructing a photo-assisted field-emission cathode as a pulsed electron source.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTechnical Digest - 25th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, IVNC 2012Om
Pages236-238
Number of pages3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event25th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, IVNC 2012 - Jeju, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 9 Jul 201213 Jul 2012

Publication series

NameTechnical Digest - 25th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, IVNC 2012

Conference

Conference25th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, IVNC 2012
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityJeju
Period9/07/1213/07/12

Keywords

  • carbon nanotube (CNT)
  • fiber substrate
  • field emission

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