Field Emission from Carbon Nanostructures

Field emission from nano-cluster carbon films

Field emission has been reported to occur at much lower fields in carbon based thin film systems than from any other material systems. The emission has been shown to depend on the various material parameters, but whichever carbon based system is used, it is found that emission occurs at localised sites rather than uniformly over the entire surface. Carbon films with mixed sp3 sp2 bonding, like ...

Part II Field Emission from Carbon Nanotubes

Dynamical simulation of field emission in nanostructures

An efficient computational scheme based on the first-principles pseudopotential method is proposed for the electron emission from nanostructures under an applied electric field. The emission rate of the electron through the potential barrier is calculated by integrating the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the states residing initially inside the emitter. Our approach takes into account ...

Electron field emission from transparent multiwalled carbon nanotube sheets for inverted field emission displays

Strong, conducting, transparent carbon nanotube sheets were prepared by solid-state draw from well-ordered, aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) forests [Zhang et al., 2005] [1]. Study of electron field emission from such transparent MWCNT sheets shows threshold fields of less than 0.5 V/lm with current densities high enough for display applications. Step-like field emission current incr...

Calculating the Field Emission Current from a Carbon Nanotube

The purpose of this work is to present elements of a design tool for field emission displays using carbon nanotubes as emitters. We use a continuum model to describe the carbon nanotubes and we use a locally one-dimensional approximation to calculate the emission current. We investigate the emission current to voltage characteristic, screening effects and the lateral spread of the emission curr...