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Enhanced and Stable Field Emission from in Situ Nitrogen-Doped Few-Layered Graphene Nanoflakes

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Title Enhanced and Stable Field Emission from in Situ Nitrogen-Doped Few-Layered Graphene Nanoflakes
 
Creator SOIN, N
ROY, SS
ROY, S
HAZRA, KS
MISRA, DS
LIM, TH
HETHERINGTON, CJ
MCLAUGHLIN, JA
 
Subject MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES
AMORPHOUS-CARBON
RAMAN-SPECTROSCOPY
ARC-DISCHARGE
GRAPHITE
SPECTRA
FILMS
DEPOSITION
PHOTOEMISSION
ATOMS
 
Description Vertically aligned few-layered graphene (FLG) nanoflakes were synthesized on bare silicon (Si) substrates by a microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition method. In situ nitrogen (N(2)) plasma treatment was carried out using electron cyclotron resonance plasma, resulting in various nitrogen functionalities being grafted to the FLG surface. Compared with pristine FLGs, the N(2) plasma-treated FLGs showed significant improvement in field emission characteristics by lowering the turn-on field (defined at 10 mu A/cm(2)) from 1.94 to 1.0 V/mu m. Accordingly, the field emission current increased from 17 mu A/cm(2) at 2.16 V/mu m for pristine FLGs to about 103 mu A/cm(2) at 1.45 V/mu m for N-doped FLGs. Furthermore, N-doped FLG samples retained 94% of the starting current over a period of 10 000 s, during which the fluctuations were of the order of +/- 10.7% only. The field emission behavior of pristine and N(2) plasma-treated FLGs is explained in terms of change in the effective microstructure as well as a reduction in the work function as probed by X-ray photoelectron valence band spectroscopy.
 
Publisher AMER CHEMICAL SOC
 
Date 2012-06-26T09:03:46Z
2012-06-26T09:03:46Z
2011
 
Type Article
 
Identifier JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C,115(13)5366-5372
1932-7447
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp110476m
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/14252
 
Language English