Thin Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Synthesized by Rapid Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition and Their Field Emission Properties
- Authors
- Chun, Kyoung-Yong; Il Jung, Seung; Choi, Hae Young; Kim, Jong-Uk; Lee, Cheol Jin
- Issue Date
- 3월-2009
- Publisher
- AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
- Keywords
- Carbon Nanotube; Thin MWCNTs; RTCVD; Field Emission
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY, v.9, no.3, pp.2148 - 2154
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
- Volume
- 9
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 2148
- End Page
- 2154
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/120548
- DOI
- 10.1166/jnn.2009.023
- ISSN
- 1533-4880
- Abstract
- Thin multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were successfully synthesized by a rapid thermal chemical vapor deposition (RTCVD) method using a liquid catalyst. The growth of the thin MWCNTs was achieved by decomposition of C2H2 over Fe-Mo/MgO/citric acid directly at 700 degrees C for 30 min. Most thin MWCNTs, which had about 6 similar to 8 graphene layers, showed high purity (similar to 90%) and good crystallinity. Moreover, they showed homogenous morphology and uniform diameters. The average outer diameter of the thin MWCNTs was about 8 nm. The uniform diameter and good homogeneity of thin MWCNTs were mainly attributed to prevention of catalyst agglomeration at high temperature due to a short reaction time, and the high purity of thin MWCNTs was caused by suppression of the residual CNT growth after finishing a reaction in RTCVD process. Field emission properties of the thin MWCNTs were measured in a vacuum chamber at a pressure of less than 2 x 10(-7) Torr. The turn-on field was about 3.35 V/mu m at the emission current density of 0.1 mu A/cm(2), and the emission current density was 2.5 mA/cm(2) at an applied field of 6.7 V/mu m. Particularly, the thin MWCNTs showed strong emission stability at emission current density of 0.8 mA/cm(2) for 20 h.
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