MoS 2 nanoflowers and their field-emission properties
- 24 March 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 82 (12), 1962-1964
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1563307
Abstract
Elegant three-dimensional nanoflowers were uniformly formed via heating a thin film in a vapor sulfur atmosphere. Tens to hundreds of petals were self-assembled within a single nanoflower. Each petal, 100–300 nm wide and only several nanometers thick, exhibited a hexagonal structure. The number of petal layers gradually decreased towards the edges, resulting in uniquely thin edges, typically less than 3 nm. The nanoflowers appeared to be excellent field emitters displaying a current density of 0.01 and at macroscopic fields of 4.5–5.5 and 7.6–8.6 V/μm, respectively; the electron field emission was consistent with the Fowler–Nordheim theory.
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