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

Journal Article · 31 October 2017 · Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5001324 · OSTI ID:1409864

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

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