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Electron and Ion Beams, Accelerators

Effect of interference on field electron emission

V. M. Lobanov^a, E. P. Sheshin<sup>b

a</sup> Bashkir State Agricultural University, Ufa
^b Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region

Abstract: Carbon nanotubes are studied with the help of an electron projector and dispersion field-emitted energy analyzer. Probe current-voltage characteristics of two samples exhibited wave-like modulation caused by periodic variations in field-emitted electron energy spectra observed with increasing emission voltage. Deviations of the current from the average Fowler–Nordheim line were up to $\pm$ 35% within one period. The explanation relies on the model of Young’s interference from two coherent sources.

Received: 18.05.2010

 English version: Technical Physics, 2011, 56:2, 282–290

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