Post-treatment of screen-printed carbon nanotube emitter by selective plasma etching

Abstract

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Luminescence uniformity studies on dendrite bamboo carbon submicron-tube field-emitter arrays

“…The aging treatment is used to improve the FE property. 5,7 The FE aging properties of all these samples were measured using a simple diode configuration. The anode was an indium tin oxide glass 10ϫ 10 mm 2 , just like that of the bamboo carbon submicron-tube thin-film cathode, and the gap between the Si substrate and the anode was 350 m. The vacuum level was kept at about 5 ϫ 10 −5 Pa during measurements.…”

“…[1][2][3][4] However, low stability and nonuniformity of the MWCNT film have always restricted its application in cold-electron FEDs. Recently, to improve the FE properties, an increasing number of studies have been done on FE stability and uniformity, such as posttreatment and aging treatment [5][6][7][8] to FE emitters. At the same time, some MWCNT composite structures have attracted attention.…”

Towards graphane field emitters

“…1, showing the typical variation in amplication in emission current (density), h ¼ (J treated max /J pristine max ), and reduction in turn-on and threshold elds, 3 ¼ (E treated on,thr /E pristine on,thr ), for the various low dimensional graphitic allotropes (Fig. 1(a)), including graphene, 29,30 carbon nanotubes (CNT), 19,21,22,24,27,28,[31][32][33][34][35] and carbon nanobres (CNF) 36,37 as a function of plasma precursor type, plasma power, and exposure time. Here, the subscript 'max' denotes the maximum measured current density, with the threshold electric eld (E thr ) and the turn-on electric eld (E on ) of the normalised current density, dened as 10% and 30% respectively.…”

Field Emission Properties of the Dendritic Carbon Nanotubes Film Embedded with ZnO Quantum Dots

“…Shiroishi [11] research group decreased the turn-on voltage from 2.1 to 1.4 V/μm and improved the field emission characteristics by laser posttreatment on the carbon nanotubes. Yu [13] group selectively etched the carbon nanotubes film prepared through screenprinting, so as to remove the inorganic binder within the CNT cathode film and to enhance emission performance effectively. A novel dendritic structure carbon nanotube cathode film was proposed in this paper.…”