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Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society (BKCS)

ISSN 0253-2964(Print)
ISSN 1229-5949(Online)
Volume 27, Number 10
BKCSDE 27(10)
October 20, 2006 

 
Title
Improved Field Emission Currents of Carbon Nanotubes after Laser Irradiation
Author
Jungwoo Lee, Jaehong Park, Whikun Yi*
Keywords
Field emission, Carbon nanotube, Laser irradiation, Silver paste, Electrical contact
Abstract
Field emission (FE) currents were measured for silver-pasted and glass-pasted single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) after illuminating the tubes with a pulsed 532 nm laser. A very low turn-on field of approximately 0.4 V/μ m and a high current density ~1700 μ A/cm2 at 3.5 V/μ m was obtained for the silver-pasted SWNTs after laser irradiation but on the whole, no improvements were found for the glass-pasted SWNTs. Two roles of laser irradiation for the silver-pasted SWNTs were proposed. First, the embedded SWNTs and SWNT bundles inside the silver paste were immerged on the outer surface due to an instantaneous melting or annealing of the silver metals by the laser resulting in an increase of the field emission sites. Second, the laser irradiation was thought to improve the electrical contact between SWNTs and the silver metal by reducing the contact resistance via laser-induced thermal annealing, which was responsible for increasing the FE currents.
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1651 - 1654
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