Reliable and flexible carbon-nanofiber-based all-plastic field emission devices

Abstract

The authors present the fabrication and electrical characterization of carbon nanofiber-based flexible field emitters prepared by an ion beam technique. The flexible emitters are extremely robust under various stress conditions and show no sign of degradation after 16h long lifetime test. An all-plastic flexible field emission device with excellent emission properties has also been demonstrated using phosphor-coated polyester as an anode.

Carbon nanofiber arrays from high-aspect ratio polymer pillar prepared by nanoimprinting using anodic porous alumina

“…The fabrication of arrays of carbon nanofibers with controlled geometrical structures is important owing to their applicability to various functional devices such as electrodes, capacitors, and sensors [1][2][3][4][5]. Although there have been many reports on the fabrication of carbon nanofiber arrays, a process allowing the highthroughput production of arrays of carbon nanofibers with controlled geometrical structures has not yet been established [6][7][8].…”

Investigation of temperature on the field electron emission from flexible N-doped SiC nanoneedles

“…Field emission (FE) flexible cathode which based on the one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures has attracted extensive attentions during the past decade due to their high flexibility and foldability [1][2][3]. The flexible cathodes displayed great superiority from these cathodes which growth on the rigid substrate.…”

Fabrication of Ion-Induced Carbon Nanocomposite Fibres and their Application to Magnetic Force Microscope Probes

“…The investigations along these lines are now being undertaken. Besides the probe applications, ion-induced pristine and composite CNFs are applicable to field electron emission devices (Tanemura et al, 2005b;Tanemura et al, 2005c;Tan et al, 2006;Sim et al, 2007;Wang et al, 2009). In addition, by using the ion (a) (b) www.intechopen.com Advances in Nanocomposites -Synthesis, Characterization and Industrial Applications 832 irradiation method, ZnO based composite nanoneedles for ultra violet laser emission Tanemura et al, 2006c;Yang et al, 2006;Tanemura et al, 2007) and spintronics devices (Herng et al, 2007;Herng et al, 2009) can be fabricated.…”

“…This allows us a greater choice of substrates. In fact, densely distributed CNF-tipped cones www.intechopen.com Fabrication of Ion-Induced Carbon Nanocomposite Fibres and their Application to Magnetic Force Microscope Probes 819 grow also on carbon coated plastic substrates (Tanemura et al, 2006a;Tan et al, 2006;Sim et al, 2007). Another feature of ion-induced CNFs is that the higher ion-incidence angle (ion irradiation at oblique direction) produces CNFs of smaller diameter (Tanemura et al, 2005a;Yusop et al, 2010).…”