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 |
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| Article number | 103113 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| 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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