Electron field emission from screen-printed graphene/DWCNT composite films

  • Jinzhuo Xu
  • , Rong Pan
  • , Yiwei Chen
  • , Xianqin Piao
  • , Min Qian
  • , Tao Feng*
  • , Zhuo Sun
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The electron field emission properties of graphene/double-walled carbon nanotube (DWCNT) composite films prepared by screen printing have been systematically studied. Comparing with the pure DWCNT films and pure graphene films, a significant enhancement of electron emission performance of the composite films are observed, such as lower turn-on field, higher emission current density, higher field enhancement factor, and long-term stability. The optimized composite films with 20% weight ratio of graphene show the best electron emission performance with a low turn-on field of 0.62 V μm -1 (at 1 μA cm-2) and a high field enhancement factor β of 13,000. A model of the graphene/DWCNT composite films is proposed, which indicate that a certain amount of graphene will contribute the electron transmission in the silver substrate/composite films interface and in the interior of composite films, and finally improve the electron emission performance of the graphene/DWCNT composite films.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)348-351
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of Alloys and Compounds
Volume551
DOIs
StatePublished - 25 Feb 2013

Keywords

  • Double-walled carbon nanotube
  • Field emission
  • Graphene
  • Screen printing

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