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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been found to be very good field emitters with low turn-on fields and high current densities [1]. This has made them attractive as possible electron sources in, for example, cathode ray tubes and electron microscopes.
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The authors thank the EPSRC for a PhD studentship and funding GR/S85689/01.
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Briston, K.J., Peng, Y., Grobert, N., Cullis, A.G., Inkson, B.J. (2008). Field emission from iron-filled carbon nanotubes observed in-situ in the scanning electron microscope. In: Richter, S., Schwedt, A. (eds) EMC 2008 14th European Microscopy Congress 1–5 September 2008, Aachen, Germany. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85226-1_85
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