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Modeling of Optimized Field Emission Nanotriodes with Aligned Carbon Nanotubes of Variable Heights

Dan Nicolaescu, Lucian Dragos Filip1, Seigo Kanemaru and Junji Itoh

Nanoelectronics Research Institute, AIST, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
1University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, P.O. Box MG-11, Bucharest-Magurele 76900, Romania

(Received September 24, 2003; accepted October 28, 2003; published February 10, 2004)

Films of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have recently being grown within patterned areas. Nanotriodes based on such CNT arrays as field emitters have the potential of improved performance if devising a way to subject the nanotubes to uniform extraction fields. In this paper, we propose and model an optimized field emission nanotriode with aligned CNTs of variable heights. The bunch of variable-height CNTs is centrally placed in the opening of the gate electrode, the CNTs being taller in the middle and shorter toward the bunch edge. A proof-of-concept analytical model to describe the electric field distribution is derived. Numerical computations of the electric field for three-dimensional structural configurations taking into account the CNT reciprocal field screening have been performed. The nanotriode characteristics have been calculated as a function of device geometry and its functional parameters. Optimal nanotriode configurations assuring quasi-uniform extraction fields and enhanced emission currents have been shown to exist.

URL: http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/43/485/
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.43.485


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