1. Field emission properties of boron nanostructures
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Fei Liu, Haibo Gan, Shaozhi Deng, Yun Yang, Ningsheng Xu, Jun Chen, and Luxi Peng
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Field electron emission ,Materials science ,Nanostructure ,Field (physics) ,chemistry ,Electron affinity ,Nanowire ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Nanotechnology ,Boron ,Elastic modulus ,Nanomaterials - Abstract
Boron nanostructures (nanowires and nanotubes) have been thought as ideal nanomaterials for building optoelectronic nanodevices because of their high conductivity, large elastic modulus and high melting-point. In our studies, it is found that boron nanostructures have a low turn-on field and high emission uniformity. Moreover, boron nanostructures can endure a high emission current, which suggests that they may have potential application in field emission area.
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- 2015
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