Field Emission from an Array of Free-standing Metallic Nanowires

• 来源期刊: 中国物理快报（英文版）
• 学科: 物理学
• 年，卷（期）: 2002,（7）
• 页码范围: 1016-1018
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: O4
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Arrays of single crystalline gold nanowires were synthesized electrochemically in porous polycarbonate mem-branes. The polycarbonate membrane was then removed to obtain free-standing nanowires for field emissionmeasurements. The turn-on electric field strength for field emission is found to be lower than 2V/μm. The actualelectric field that extracted electrons out of the gold nanowires is estimated to be about 1 03 times higher than thefield directly expected in the model of a parallel plate condenser. The availability of the field emission is thereforeattributed to the strong electric field at the tips resulting from smallcurvature radius of the gold nanowires.