Negative- and positive-temperature dependences of electron emission properties of hydrogen- and oxygen-terminated diamond field emitters

Author

Gotoh, Y. ; Nakahara, H. ; Kondo, T. ; Tsuji, H. ; Ishikawa, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Sci. & Eng., Kyoto Univ., Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

297

Lastpage

298

Abstract

Temperature dependence of the electron emission properties of boron doped diamond thin film field emitters was investigated. We prepared both hydrogen- and oxygen-terminated diamond films with different boron concentrations. The oxygen-terminated emitters showed an enhanced emission current with an increase in the temperature. On the contrary, the hydrogen-terminated emitters showed a lowered emission current. These tendencies were observed irrespective of the boron concentration. The results suggested that the surface dipole greatly contributes to the emission property and the dipole moment is sensitive to the temperature

Keywords

boron; diamond; electron field emission; hydrogen; oxygen; C:B,H; C:B,O; boron concentration; boron doped diamond thin film; electron emission; emission current; field emitter; hydrogen termination; oxygen termination; surface dipole moment; temperature dependence; Boron; Electron emission; Plasma chemistry; Plasma measurements; Plasma properties; Plasma temperature; Surface discharges; Surface treatment; Temperature dependence; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vacuum Microelectronics Conference, 2001. IVMC 2001. Proceedings of the 14th International

Conference_Location

Davis, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7197-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVMC.2001.939771

Filename

939771