• DocumentCode
    1920698
  • Title

    8.2: Visible light induced electron emission from carbon nanotube forests

  • Author

    Yaghoobi, Parham ; Moghaddam, Mehran Vahandi ; Nojeh, Alireza

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    26-30 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    115
  • Lastpage
    116
  • Abstract
    We report electron emission from forests of vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes as a result of irradiation by visible laser at wavelengths of 532 nm and 488 nm. The emission current shows a pseudo-exponential increase with laser power. Optical field-emission may provide an explanation for the observed behavior, although other mechanisms such as thermionic emission may also play a role.
  • Keywords
    carbon nanotubes; electron emission; thermionic emission; carbon nanotube forest; laser power; multi-walled carbon nanotubes; optical field emission; pseudo-exponential; thermionic emission; visible light induced electron emission; Carbon nanotubes; Electron emission; Electron optics; Power lasers; Stimulated emission; Thermionic emission; carbon nanotubes; field-emission; laser; optical field-emission; thermionic emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference (IVNC), 2010 23rd International
  • Conference_Location
    Palo Alto, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7889-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7888-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IVNC.2010.5563199
  • Filename
    5563199