title: Dual Effort to Correlate the Electron Field Emission Performance of Carbon Nanotubes with Synthesis As Well As Annealing Temperature: Theoretical Support of the Experimental Finding.
abstract: Here a dual approach has been adopted to study the effect of both synthesis as well as annealing temperature on the electron field emission property of differently synthesized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that include solid state chemical reaction as well as chemical vapour deposition (CVD). Experimental findings were supported by theoretical simulation. All the samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). XRD as well as TEM study confirms the amorphous nature (aCNTs) of the samples for both the synthesis techniques which is attributed to lower synthesis temperature. Prominent morphological differences of these two types of aCNTs are clearly observed from both FESEM and TEM images. It is found that electron field emission characteristics of aCNTs synthesized by CVD shows better field emission properties as compared to aCNTs synthesized by solid state reaction. Finite element based simulation shows that temperature has prominent effect on morphology, screening effect or degree of graphitization that leads to improved field emission characteristics for the CVD synthesized aCNTs.
authors.forename: Supratim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maity
authors.forename: Diptonil
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Banerjee
authors.forename: Nirmalya Sankar
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Das
authors.forename: Kalyan Kumar
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Chattopadhyay
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003460:Crystallization / Q000379:methods*; D004583:Electrons; D020342:Finite Element Analysis; D006244:Hardness; D006361:Heating / Q000379:methods*; D008422:Materials Testing; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D010316:Particle Size
chemical_list: D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon