Field emission of electrons

A new feature, on which the laser electrodispersion method is based, consists in that the process of cascade fission terminates after the daughter drops reach a nanometer size. As charged drops immersed in plasma become smaller, the electric field on their surface increases, which results in a dramatic increase in the field emission of electrons. After the size of the daughter drops decreases to several nanometers, the flow of electrons emerging from the drop surface starts to exceed that coming in from the plasma. In this case, the drops discharge and become stable, so that the fission terminates. Thus, fission of micrometer and submicrometer drops in the laser torch plasma yields a tremendous number of nanometer drops with narrow size dispersion and a small amount of residues of maternal drops that had not enough time for total fission. 

Field emission of electrons Flat panel displays, electron beam lithography, transmission wave tubes, electron guns, micro X-r iy sources... 

When performed outside the scan area of interest, a sudden increase of the bias voltage to about —1 to —10 V (at the tip) for 2-4 scan lines (on metal surfaces) leads to a controlled field emission of electrons . By this treatment some atoms may move down to the tip apex due to the non-uniform electric field and form a nanotip (Fig. 10.17) [76]. 

Fig. 10.17. Field emission of electrons from a tip by applying a large negative bias to the tip.

Although Itoh et al. did not observe an improvement of photovoltaic devices based on a bilayer configuration of Ti02 and P30T via doping of the P30T layer with SWNTs, they did find a dramatic increase of the current under reverse bias. This was attributed to field emission of electrons from the CNT onto the dense Ti02 film [322]. 

By ion microscopy, the processes occurring on low index planes can be readily detected, whereas these are usually obscured by the high work function of these planes when observations are attempted by field emission of electrons. The ability of the ion microscope to reveal individual atoms, both in the adsorbed layer as well as in the substrate, opens up entirely new possibilities in the study of surfaces. This increase in resolution should permit a most detailed assessment of the relation between structure and surface processes. 

An electric field can be applied to an insulator with no electrode present through electrostatic charging (sometimes called xerographic charging) [42]. The process involves the generation of ions in the vicinity of a metal point or fine wire by the field emission of electrons from (or to) the metal and the subsequent (or prior) capture (or release) of the electrons by gas atoms. The ions are then drifted to the specimen surface in an applied field and, under certain circumstances, the ions remain stable on the surface to generate an electric field between that surface and the back surface that has been held at ground potential. For this process to take place the interaction between the ions and solid surface must create an electronic level (the so-called chemisorption level of the ion on the insulator surface) that lies well within the band gap of the... 

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Where V the voltage is applied across the electrodes and d is the gap spacing between the electrodes. If one of the electrodes is replaced by a sharp protrusion or a carbon nanotube, then tiis interpreted as the minimum distance between the electrodes. So the local field (within 1-2 nm of the surface atoms) is much higher than the applied field. So the field is very high close to the tip and causes field emission of electrons above a threshold value. The shape of the electric field that spawns from the carbon nanotube in vacuum is also found to be near Gaussian [21]. 

Huarong L, Saito Y, Influence of surface roughness on field emission of electrons from carbon nanotube films. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2010. 10(6) 3983-3987. 

Field emission of electrons into vacuum is described by the Fowler-Nordheim equation which gives the current density, j (A/cm ), as a function of the electric field strength at the metal surface, E (V/cm), such that... 

Zakhidov, A.A., Nanjundaswamy, R., Obraztsov, A.N., Zhang, M., Fang, S., Klesch, V.I., Baughman, R.H., Zakhidov, A.A., 2007. Field emission of electrons by carbon nanotube twist-yams. Appl. Phys. A 88, 593-600. 

A further major factor in this comparison with electron image interactions, which, as we have said, are important in vacuum-surface science, particularly in cold field emission of electrons and resonance tunneling. 

Field emission of electrons at the cathode has been postulated by a... 

M.S. Doescher. JM. Tour, A.M. Rawlett and M.L. Myrick, "Stripping voltammetry of Cu overlayers deposited on self-assembled-monolayers field emission of electrons through a phenylene ethynylene oligomer , J. Fkys. Chem. B, 2001,105,105-110. 

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