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Title: Structural change at the carbon-nanotube tip by field emission
Authors: Kuzumaki, Toru
Takamura, Yuzuru
Ichinose, Hideki
Horiike, Yasuhiro
Issue Date: 2001-06-04
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Magazine name: Applied Physics Letters
Volume: 78
Number: 23
Start page: 3699
End page: 3701
DOI: 10.1063/1.1376149
Abstract: Carbon-nanotube tips are plastically deformed during field emission. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy and structural simulations suggest that the deformed structure of the closed nanotube is explained by heterogeneous nucleation of the pentagonal and heptagonal carbon ring pairs, and that of the opened one is represented by sp^3-like line defects in the hexagonal carbon network. It is considered that the changing of the inclination of the Fowler-Nordheim plots corresponds to the structural change in which a tip becomes sharp. The field ion microscope image and the corresponding field-emission pattern suggest that the electron emission from a closed nanotube is not necessarily from pentagonal carbon rings, but from the protrudent carbon network sites on the tip.
Rights: Copyright 2001 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in T. Kuzumaki, Y. Takamura, H. Ichinose, Y. Horiike, Applied Physics Letters, 78(23), 3699-3701 (2001) and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/78/3699/1
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10119/4533
Material Type: publisher
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