In situ mechanical testing reveals periodic buckle nucleation and propagation in carbon nanotube bundles

SB Hutchens, LJ Hall, JR Greer - Advanced Functional …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Uniaxial compression studies are performed on 50‐µm‐diameter bundles of nominally
vertical, intertwined carbon nanotubes grown via chemical vapor deposition from a …

A fully-sealed carbon-nanotube cold-cathode terahertz gyrotron

X Yuan, W Zhu, Y Zhang, N Xu, Y Yan, J Wu, Y Shen… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Gigahertz to terahertz radiation sources based on cold-cathode vacuum electron technology
are pursued, because its unique characteristics of instant switch-on and power saving are …

Enhanced field emission stability of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes through anchoring for X-ray imaging applications

X Liu, Y Li, J Xiao, J Zhao, C Li, Z Li - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
It remains difficult to obtain a carbon nanotube (CNT) emitter that simultaneously exhibits
high current density, low fluctuation, and long service time because CNTs are easily …

High current field emission from individual non-linear resistor ballasted carbon nanotube cluster array

Z Li, X Yang, F He, B Bai, H Zhou, C Li, Q Dai - Carbon, 2015 - Elsevier
Field emission (FE) electron sources based on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have the potential
to serve as cold cathodes for various vacuum microelectronic and nanoelectronic devices …

[HTML][HTML] Hysteresis during field emission from chemical vapor deposition synthesized carbon nanotube fibers

M Cahay, PT Murray, TC Back, S Fairchild… - Applied physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Hysteresis in the field emission (FE) data of a chemical vapor synthesized carbon nanotube
fiber cathode is analyzed in the regime where self-heating effects are negligible. In both the …

High-performance field emission from a carbon nanotube carpet

J Lee, Y Jung, J Song, JS Kim, GW Lee, HJ Jeong… - Carbon, 2012 - Elsevier
We have created a field emitter composed of a carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn, which was
prepared by direct spinning through chemical vapor deposition and then formed into a …

Millimeter-long carbon nanotubes: outstanding electron-emitting sources

N Perea-Lopez, B Rebollo-Plata, JA Briones-Leon… - ACS …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We are reporting the fabrication of a very efficient electron source using millimeter-long and
highly crystalline carbon nanotubes. These devices start to emit electrons at fields as low as …

[HTML][HTML] Nanotechnology-supported THz medical imaging

A Stylianou, MA Talias - F1000Research, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Over the last few decades, the achievements and progress in the field of medical imaging
have dramatically enhanced the early detection and treatment of many pathological …

A gridded high-compression-ratio carbon nanotube cold cathode electron gun

X Yuan, Y Zhang, H Yang, X Li, N Xu… - IEEE Electron …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to develop field emission cold cathode radiation source devices, a gridded carbon
nanotube (CNT) cold cathode electron gun is theoretically and experimentally investigated …

Beam test of a novel CNT cathode-based electron gun assembled in a TWT

X Li, B Chen, Y Feng, Y Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A magnetic-focused X-band traveling wave tube (TWT) based on carbon nanotube (CNT)
cathode is presented. The CNT TWT has a simple structure of the electron gun, consisting of …