Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: An ion implantation technique has been applied to control the energy band structure of Si field-emitter tip surface. B+or P+ions were implanted after fabrication of a gated emitter structure. No changes in emitter structure were observed after ion implantation and successive annealing at 800° C. Current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of n, p, p/n and n/p emitter tips were measured: p/n indicates an n-type tip with B+ions implanted into the tip surface. It was found from the experimental results that n and p/n tips hadI-Vcharacteristics in agreement with the Fowler-Nordheim theory. The p and n/p tips, on the other hand, exhibited a current saturation property in high electric field. The present saturation mechanism is explained by considering the energy band structure of the tip surface.
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.34.6907
Institution: Kobe Steel (Japan)
Language: English
Subfield: Biomedical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2018658196