Independent tuning of work function and field enhancement factor in hybrid lanthanum hexaboride-graphene-silicon field emitters

Rezaeifar, Fatemeh; Lin, Qingfeng; Chen, Xiangyu; Mattox, Tracy M.; Garg, Ayush; Clough, Andrew; Poudel, Nirakar; Blankemeier, Louis; Sarkar, Debarghya; Cronin, Stephen B.; Kapadia, Rehan

doi:10.1116/1.5001324

Title: Independent tuning of work function and field enhancement factor in hybrid lanthanum hexaboride-graphene-silicon field emitters

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Rezaeifar, Fatemeh; Lin, Qingfeng; Chen, Xiangyu ^[1]; Mattox, Tracy M. ^[2]; Garg, Ayush ^[3]; Clough, Andrew ^[4]; Poudel, Nirakar; Blankemeier, Louis; Sarkar, Debarghya; Cronin, Stephen B.; Kapadia, Rehan

Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089
Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089
Department of Chemistry and Center for Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089

Publication Date:: 2017-11-01

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1409864

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Publisher's Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B Journal Volume: 35 Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2166-2746

Publisher:: American Vacuum Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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                    Rezaeifar, Fatemeh, Lin, Qingfeng, Chen, Xiangyu, Mattox, Tracy M., Garg, Ayush, Clough, Andrew, Poudel, Nirakar, Blankemeier, Louis, Sarkar, Debarghya, Cronin, Stephen B., and Kapadia, Rehan. Independent tuning of work function and field enhancement factor in hybrid lanthanum hexaboride-graphene-silicon field emitters.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
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                    Rezaeifar, Fatemeh, Lin, Qingfeng, Chen, Xiangyu, Mattox, Tracy M., Garg, Ayush, Clough, Andrew, Poudel, Nirakar, Blankemeier, Louis, Sarkar, Debarghya, Cronin, Stephen B., & Kapadia, Rehan. Independent tuning of work function and field enhancement factor in hybrid lanthanum hexaboride-graphene-silicon field emitters.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5001324

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                    Rezaeifar, Fatemeh, Lin, Qingfeng, Chen, Xiangyu, Mattox, Tracy M., Garg, Ayush, Clough, Andrew, Poudel, Nirakar, Blankemeier, Louis, Sarkar, Debarghya, Cronin, Stephen B., and Kapadia, Rehan. Wed .  
"Independent tuning of work function and field enhancement factor in hybrid lanthanum hexaboride-graphene-silicon field emitters".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5001324.

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  title        = {Independent tuning of work function and field enhancement factor in hybrid lanthanum hexaboride-graphene-silicon field emitters},

  author       = {Rezaeifar, Fatemeh and Lin, Qingfeng and Chen, Xiangyu and Mattox, Tracy M. and Garg, Ayush and Clough, Andrew and Poudel, Nirakar and Blankemeier, Louis and Sarkar, Debarghya and Cronin, Stephen B. and Kapadia, Rehan},

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  doi          = {10.1116/1.5001324},

  journal      = {Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B},

  number       = 6,

  volume       = 35,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2017},

  month        = {11}

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