Original title: Field emission from the surface of highly ordered pyrolytic graphite
Authors: Knápek, Alexandr ; Pokorná, Zuzana
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: International Seminar on Recent Trends in Charged Particle Optics and Surface Physics Instrumentation /15./, Skalský dvůr (CZ), 20160529
Year: 2016
Language: eng
Abstract: This paper deals with the electrical characterization of highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) surface based on field emission of electrons. The effect of field emission, occurs only at disrupted surface, i.e. surface containing ripped and warped shreds of the uppermost layers of graphite. These deformations provide the necessary field gradients which are required for measuring tunneling current caused by field electron emission. Results of the field emission measurements are correlated with other surface\ncharacterization methods such as scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) or atomic force microscopy. A simple method utilizing the field emission of electrons has been devised to characterize the sample surface. Electron and probe microscopies were used to determine the structure of both the bulk sample and the partially exfoliated shreds of the uppermost layers of graphite in locations where field emission is observed.
Keywords: electron microscopy; HOPG; SNOM
Project no.: TE01020118 (CEP)
Funding provider: GA TA ČR
Host item entry: Proceedings of the 15th International Seminar on Recent Trends in Charged Particle Optics and Surface Physics Instrumentation, ISBN 978-80-87441-17-6
Note: Související webová stránka: http://www.trends.isibrno.cz/

Institution: Institute of Scientific Instruments AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0260333

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