Field emission properties of as-grown multiwalled carbon nanotube films

Details Field emission properties of as-grown multiwalled carbon nanotube films Field emission properties of as-grown multiwalled carbon nanotube films

2011-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/1102.1886v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

18 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

Multiwalled carbon nanotubes have been produced by ethylene catalytic chemical vapor deposition and used to fabricate thick and dense freestanding films ("buckypapers") by membrane filtering. Field emission properties of buckypapers have been locally studied by means of high vacuum atomic force microscopy with a standard metallic cantilever used as anode to collect electrons emitted from the sample. Buckypapers showed an interesting linear dependence in the Fowler-Nordheim plots demonstrating their suitability as emitters. By precisely tuning the tip-sample distance in the submicron region we found out that the field enhancement factor is not affected by distance variations up to 2um. Finally, the study of current stability showed that the field emission current with intensity of about 3,3*10-5A remains remarkably stable (within 5% fluctuations) for several hours.

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