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垂直排列多壁碳纳米管场发射稳定性的局域探测

Local probing of the field emission stability of vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes

F. Giubileo, A. Di Bartolomeo, A. Scarfato, L. Iemmo, F. Bobba, M. Passacantando, S. Santucci, A. M. Cucolo

摘要:

采用高真空原子力显微镜中的金属悬臂梁作为阳极,对密集排列的垂直排列多壁碳纳米管进行了场发射实验。由扫描探针技术提供的高空间分辨率允许在亚微米区域中精确设置尖端-样品距离。探针的尺寸(曲率半径低于50 nm)允许测量小于1 μ m^2的样品面积的电流贡献。长期稳定性的研究证明,在这些小区域上,场发射电流在10-5A和10-8A之间的电流强度下保持稳定(在10%波动内)数小时(至少长达72小时)。在进行长时间焦耳加热调节以完全去除纳米管上可能的吸附物之后,已经观察到电流稳定性的改善。

英文摘要:

Metallic cantilever in high vacuum atomic force microscope has been used as anode for field emission experiments from densely packed vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The high spatial resolution provided by the scanning probe technique allowed precise setting of the tip-sample distance in the submicron region. The dimension of the probe (curvature radius below 50nm) allowed to measure current contribution from sample areas smaller than 1um^2. The study of long-term stability evidenced that on these small areas the field emission current remains stable (within 10% fluctuations) several hours (at least up to 72 hours) at current intensities between 10-5A and 10-8A. Improvement of the current stability has been observed after performing long-time Joule heating conditioning to completely remove possible adsorbates on the nanotubes.

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