AUTHOR=Chen Guohai , Song Yenan 

TITLE=Field Emission from Lateral Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Yarn Emitters

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Materials

VOLUME=Volume 3 - 2016

YEAR=2016

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/materials/articles/10.3389/fmats.2016.00048

DOI=10.3389/fmats.2016.00048

ISSN=2296-8016

ABSTRACT=A field emission from a lateral emitter made by a multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) yarn was investigated. The lateral emitter showed an excellent field emission performance with a low turn-on electric field of 1.13 V/um at an emission current of 1 uA, high emission current of 0.2 mA at an applied voltage of 700 V, and long-time emission stability for over 20 h without any significant current decay under an initial emission current of about 0.10 mA. The lateral emitter also demonstrated a uniform line emission pattern. It is suggested that the field emission occurs from the outmost MWCNTs which are protruding out from the yarn surface.