Daisylike Field-Emission Images from Standalone Open-Ended Carbon Nanotube

• Tanaka Hiroyoshi

  Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University

• Akita Seiji

  Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University

• Pan Lujun

  Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University

• Nakayama Yoshikazu

  Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University Handai Frontier Research Center, Osaka University

Abstract

Field emission from a standalone open-ended carbon nanotube has been investigated. The open-ended nanotube, which was prepared by overcurrent cutting of a multiwalled nanotube followed by the extraction of thin inner layers, consists of a single layer at the tip. The field-emission microscopy image shows a daisylike pattern with twelve bright stripes. This is discussed in terms of the interference of electron beams from carbon atoms or localized sites on an open-ended ring and the difference in the magnification of emission sites between the circumference and the radial direction. A standing wave along the circumference is proposed as the origin of the emission sites.

Journal

• Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

  Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 43 (2A), L197-L199, 2004

  The Japan Society of Applied Physics

Keywords

• open-ended carbon nanotube
• multiwalled nanotube
• field emission
• field-emission microscopy
• emission site
• electron beam
• open-ended ring
• daisylike pattern
• standing wave

Details

• CRID: 1390282681242589440
• NII Article ID: 210000057120
• NII Article ID: 10012039065
• NII Book ID: AA11906093
• DOI: 10.1143/jjap.43.l197
• ISSN: 13474065
• ISSN: 00214922
• NDL BIB ID: 6849530
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I6849530
• Web Site: http://stacks.iop.org/1347-4065/43/i=2A/a=L197/pdf
• Text Lang: en
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