Published April 4, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Enhanced field emission from injector-like ZnO nanostructures with minimized screening effect

  • 1. School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096 (China)
  • 2. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, 639798 (Singapore)
  • 3. Institute of Microelectronics (IME), 11 Science Park Road, Singapore Science Park II, 117685, Singapore (Singapore)

Description

Injector-like zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures have been synthesized on Si substrate by the vapour phase transport method. Samples with different areal densities were obtained by controlling the temperature. The field emission properties of the injector-like ZnO nanostructures showed a clear dependence on the areal density of the nanostructures, which is due to the screening effect. The samples with a needle length of 850 nm and an areal density of 1 x 108 cm-2 showed the lowest field emission turn-on field of 1.85 V μm-1 at a current density of 10 μA cm-2, and the current density reaches 1 mA cm-2 at an applied field of 4.7 V μm-1

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0957-4484/18/13/135604;
PII
S0957-4484(07)42161-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nanotechnology (Print)
Journal Volume
18
Journal Issue
13
Journal Page Range
p. 135604
ISSN
0957-4484

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38083695
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Descriptors DEI
CURRENT DENSITY; DENSITY; FIELD EMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURES; SILICON; SUBSTRATES; VAPORS; ZINC OXIDES
Descriptors DEC
CHALCOGENIDES; ELEMENTS; EMISSION; FLUIDS; GASES; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SEMIMETALS; ZINC COMPOUNDS