• DocumentCode
    1283965
  • Title

    Cold field emission from CVD diamond films observed in emission electron microscopy

  • Author

    Wang, Chingyue ; Garcia, Alvaro ; Ingram, D.C. ; Lake, M. ; Kordesch, M.E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Ohio Univ., Athens, OH, USA
  • Volume
    27
  • Issue
    16
  • fYear
    1991
  • Firstpage
    1459
  • Lastpage
    1461
  • Abstract
    Thick (100 mu m) chemical vapour deposited (CVD) polycrystalline diamond films have been observed to emit electrons with an intensity sufficient to form an image in the accelerating field of an emission microscope without external excitation (<3 MV/m). The individual crystallites are of the order of 1-10 mu m. The combined crystallite diameter and the electric field strength in these ´self-emitting´ films are far below those typical for cold field emitters.
  • Keywords
    CVD coatings; diamond; electron field emission; field emission electron microscopy; 1 to 10 micron; 100 micron; C polycrystalline films; CVD diamond films; cold field emission; cold field emitters; crystallite diameter; electric field strength; electron field emission; emission electron microscopy; polycrystalline diamond films; self emitting films;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19910914
  • Filename
    81301