Low turn-on field
Discrete graphene islands expose more edges than continuous single-layer graphene, concentrating the local electric field and reducing the turn-on field for electron emission, making them suitable as stable vacuum electron sources.
Qinren, Zheng · Fuzhi, Zhan · She, Junyi · Jian-Yu, Wang · Ruo-Li, Shi · Meng, Guodong
Wuli Xuebao/Acta Physica Sinica 2024