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Stability of electron field emission in Q-carbon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2018

Ariful Haque  and
Jagdish Narayan
Ariful Haque*
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695.7916, USA
Jagdish Narayan
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695.7916, USA
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Address all correspondence to Ariful Haque at ahaque@ncsu.edu
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Abstract

In this study, we have investigated electron field emission (EFE) characteristics of Q-carbon at room temperature and above. At room temperature the Q-carbon requires only ~2.4 V/μm electric field to turn-on the EFE. The EFE properties of the Q-carbon composite structure improve with temperature by lowering the turn-on field and increasing the current density. At 500 K we observed a turn-on field of ~2.34 V/μm, and a maximum current density was found to be ~53 µA/cm2 at 2.66 V/μm. The Q-carbon field emitters also show very stable EFE characteristics (within 7% fluctuations) over time for current intensities between 7.5 and 47 µA/cm2.

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MRS Communications , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , September 2018 , pp. 1343 - 1351
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