Nature Communications (May 2016)

Tunable graphene micro-emitters with fast temporal response and controllable electron emission

  • Gongtao Wu,
  • Xianlong Wei,
  • Song Gao,
  • Qing Chen,
  • Lianmao Peng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11513
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Controlling the electron emission of microfabricated field emitters can be challenging. Here the authors report controllable and tunable graphene thermionic micro-emitters with well-defined turn-on voltages and switching times in the microsecond range and fabricate uniform micro-emitter arrays.