Low-Voltage Electron Emission by Graphene-hBN-graphene Heterostructure
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| author | Wang, Zhexuan Liu, Fang Cui, Kaiyu Feng, Xue Zhang, Wei Huang, Yidong |
| author_facet | Wang, Zhexuan Liu, Fang Cui, Kaiyu Feng, Xue Zhang, Wei Huang, Yidong |
| contents | Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) with low energy electron sources (accelerating voltage of less than 1000V) have important application requirements in many application scenarios. Tunneling junction can potentially achieve low-voltage and planar-type electron sources with good emission current density. However, further lower the extracting voltage while ensure the emission current density remains challenging. In this paper, we report a low-voltage planar-type electron source based on graphene-hBN-graphene heterostructures (GBGH) under a really low out-plane extracting voltage. The external electric field strength applied to the electron sources is only 4 times 10^4V/m and the accelerating voltage as low as 20V is realized. Steady electron emission of over 1nA and operating duration of several hours is observed from the GBGH with size of 59.29um^2 in our experiments, and thus the maximum emission current density reaches 7mA/cm^2. Great electrical contacts, extremely low thickness, and excellent layer properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials lead to easy-fabrication and miniature on-chip electron sources, which would significantly contribute to the development of next-generation free electron devices. |
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| spellingShingle | Low-Voltage Electron Emission by Graphene-hBN-graphene Heterostructure Wang, Zhexuan Liu, Fang Cui, Kaiyu Feng, Xue Zhang, Wei Huang, Yidong Applied Physics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) with low energy electron sources (accelerating voltage of less than 1000V) have important application requirements in many application scenarios. Tunneling junction can potentially achieve low-voltage and planar-type electron sources with good emission current density. However, further lower the extracting voltage while ensure the emission current density remains challenging. In this paper, we report a low-voltage planar-type electron source based on graphene-hBN-graphene heterostructures (GBGH) under a really low out-plane extracting voltage. The external electric field strength applied to the electron sources is only 4 times 10^4V/m and the accelerating voltage as low as 20V is realized. Steady electron emission of over 1nA and operating duration of several hours is observed from the GBGH with size of 59.29um^2 in our experiments, and thus the maximum emission current density reaches 7mA/cm^2. Great electrical contacts, extremely low thickness, and excellent layer properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials lead to easy-fabrication and miniature on-chip electron sources, which would significantly contribute to the development of next-generation free electron devices. |
| title | Low-Voltage Electron Emission by Graphene-hBN-graphene Heterostructure |
| topic | Applied Physics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15807 |