Procedure for calculating the field-emission current from a single carbon nanotube

作者：Bulyarskii S V^*; Lakalin A V; Basaev A S

来源：Semiconductors, 2013, 47(13): 1692-1696.

DOI：10.1134/S1063782613130058

• field-emission current
• carbon nanotube
• the Nordheim-Fowler model
• potential barrier

A method for calculating the field-emission current from a single carbon nanotube in an external electric field directed along the nanotube is presented. The method is based on a semiclassical approach using the subbarrier-tunneling mechanism. It is shown that the current corresponds to the Nordheim-Fowler mechanism for field emission in the case of strong fields; in the case of weak fields, there are deviations associated with features of the behavior of the potential barrier.

• 出版日期2013-12