title: Field Emission of ITO-Coated Vertically Aligned Nanowire Array.
abstract: An indium tin oxide (ITO)-coated vertically aligned nanowire array is fabricated, and the field emission characteristics of the nanowire array are investigated. An array of vertically aligned nanowires is considered an ideal structure for a field emitter because of its parallel orientation to the applied electric field. In this letter, a vertically aligned nanowire array is fabricated by modified conventional UV lithography and coated with 0.1-μm-thick ITO. The turn-on electric field intensity is about 2.0 V/μm, and the field enhancement factor, β, is approximately 3,078 when the gap for field emission is 0.6 μm, as measured with a nanomanipulator in a scanning electron microscope.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea. swlee81@kaist.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Changhwa
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Seokwoo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Seung S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Lee