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A Review Paper on “Graphene Field Emission for Electron Microscopy”
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: Received: 9 May 2018 / Approved: 9 May 2018 / Online: 9 May 2018 (08:52:08 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 28 May 2018 / Approved: 28 May 2018 / Online: 28 May 2018 (09:02:44 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 28 May 2018 / Approved: 28 May 2018 / Online: 28 May 2018 (09:02:44 CEST)
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Shao, X.; Khursheed, A. A Review Paper on “Graphene Field Emission for Electron Microscopy”. Appl. Sci. 2018, 8, 868. Shao, X.; Khursheed, A. A Review Paper on “Graphene Field Emission for Electron Microscopy”. Appl. Sci. 2018, 8, 868.
Abstract
Although good field emission from graphene has been demonstrated from a wide variety of different microfabricated structures, very few of them can be used to improve the design of cold field emitters for electron microscopy applications. Most of them consist of densely packed nano-emitters, which produce a large array of defocused overlapping electron beams, and therefore cannot be subsequently focused down to a single nanometer electron probe. This paper reviews the kind of single-tip cathode structures suitable in cold field emission guns for instruments such as scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscope or scanning transmission electron microscopy, and reviews progress in fabricating them from graphene-based materials.
Keywords
graphene; cold field emission; single-tip cathode; electron microscopy
Subject
Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanotechnology
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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