Polymer supported carbon nanotube arrays for field emission and sensor devices

Paul C. P. Watts; Stephen M. Lyth; Ernest Mendoza; S. Ravi P. Silva

doi:10.1063/1.2345615

Polymer supported carbon nanotube arrays for field emission and sensor devices

Paul C. P. Watts^*, Stephen M. Lyth, Ernest Mendoza, S. Ravi P. Silva

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Abstract

The authors report a simple method for providing a polymer support structure for carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays for device applications. This method has a twofold effect: firstly it secures the nanotubes to the substrate and secondly it significantly decreases the threshold field for field emission from 26.2 to 9.7 V/ μm. This method ensures that the main body and tips of the CNTs are polymer-free and therefore can also be applied to CNT sensor array device fabrication.

Original language	English
Article number	103113
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	89
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2345615
Publication status	Published - 8 Sept 2006

Funding

The authors would like to thank the EPSRC (Grant No. RB3553) (U.K.) for funding this work.

Keywords

electrostatics
plasma processing
failure analysis
glass transitions
polymers
scanning electron microscopy
thermogravimetric analysis
chemical vapor deposition
nanotubes

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