• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2004년도 Asia Display / IMID 04
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• pp.866-869
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• 2004

A carbon nanotube field emission display(CNT FED) panel with a 2 inch diagonal size was fabricated by using a screen printing of a prepared photo-sensitive CNT paste and vacuum in-line sealing technology. After a surface treatment of the patterned CNT, only the carbon nanotube tips are uniformly exposed on the surface. The diameter of the exposed CNTs are usually about 20nm. The sealing temperature of the panel was around 390 $^{\circ}C$ and the vacuum level was obtained with $1.4{\times}10^{-5}$torr at the sealing. The field emission properties of the diode type CNT FED panel were characterized Now, we are developing a triode type CNT FED with a self-aligned gate-emitter structure.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.12-17
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• 2008

Carbon nanotube (CNT) cathodes were fabricated using nano-sized silver (Ag) powders as a bonding material between the CNTs and cathode electrodes. The effects of the powder size on the sintering behavior, the current density and emission image for CNT cathodes were investigated. As the diameter of the Ag powders decreases to 10 nm, the sintering temperature of the CNT cathode was lowered primarily due to the higher specific surface area of the Ag powders. In this study, it was demonstrated that nano-sized Ag powders can be feasibly used as a bonding material for a screen-printed CNT cathode, yielding a high current density and a uniform emission image.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2004년도 Asia Display / IMID 04
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• pp.456-458
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• 2004

We proposed a novel triode-type carbon nanotube field emitter arrays in which extracted gate is surrounded by CNT emitters. We carried out 3-dimensional numerical calculations of electrostatic potential for the proposed CNT-FEAs using the finite element method and compared the results with those obtained from the structure of conventional CNT-FEAs. It was found that the proposed structure could reduce the turn-on voltage for electron emission and improve beam focusing.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.541-542
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• 2006

In this paper, I propose the field emission tip for the E-beam array system that is made by carbon nanotubes(CNT). CNT is one of the most expected future materials, because of its great mechanical, chemical and electrical characteristics. So CNT can be used for many applications such as electron emitter, sensor, single electron transistor and AFM tip. And CNT will be applied to our E-beam array system as field emission tip so we will improve the system's electrical characteristics.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2009년도 9th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.691-692
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• 2009

Screen printable CNT pastes were formulated including conductive nano particles (CNPs) and their properties were investigated with an expectation of stable cold cathodes for advanced lamp application. CNT cathodes showed a turn-on field of 1~1.5V/um, a life time of ~100 hours at an emission current density of 10uA/$cm^2$ for DC-bias. Detailed analysis of measured I-V was carried out by applying Fowler-Nordheim model to trace down the origin of emission property degradation.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.26-31
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• 2007

카본나노튜브 전계 방출 어레이(carbon nanotube field emission array, CNT FEA)를 유리기판 상에 형성시키기 위하여 CNT 페이스트를 스크린 프린팅 후 표면처리를 수행하였다. 본 실험에서는 효과적인 표면처리 방법으로서 이온 빔을 조사(expose)시키는 방법을 연구하였다. 먼저, 유리 기판상에 감광성 CNT 페이스트를 스크린 프린팅하고 UV 후면노광 및 현상공정에 의해 선택적으로 CNT 페이스트를 남겼다. 다시 고온에서 소성후 CNT들은 바인더 성분들에 의해 문히게 된다. 본 실험에서는 소성된 CNT 페이스트의 표면상에 Ar 이온빔을 가속시켜 페이스트의 바인더(binder)를 선택적으로 제거함으로써 전계방출 특성을 향상시킬 수 있었다. 표면처리를 위한 이온 빔 가속시 이온빔의 가속에너지에 따라 특성이 크게 변화되었는데, 본 연구에서는 100 V의 낮은 가속 전압에서 가장 높은 전계방출 특성을 나타내었으며 가속 전압이 너무 높으면 바인더 성분 외에도 CNT 자체가 제거됨으로써 오히려 특정이 저하됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.252-257
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• 2005

고휘도 마이크로빔 X-선원에 사용할 고휘도 전자빔원을 탄소나노튜브를 이용하여 설계, 제작하였다. 전자빔원은 탄소나노튜브 팁을 이용한 음극, 전자빔 인출용 그리드, 전자빔 가속용 양극으로 이루어진 삼극관 형태의 구조를 가진다. 설계된 휘도 값을 얻기 위하여 X-선 발생부에서의 전자빔 직경이 5 $\mu$m 이하, 빔전류가 약 30 $\mu$A 이상이 요구된다 이러한 요구조건을 만족시키기 위하여, EGUN Code를 이용하여 전자빔의 궤적 및 공간분포 등을 계산함으로써, 탄소나노튜브 팁 및 전자빔원의 구조 등을 최적화 하였다. 제작된 탄소나노튜브 팁은 직경 200 $\mu$m 의 텅스텐 와이어를 전기화학적으로 에칭하여 그 끝을 뽀족하게 만든 뒤 텅스텐의 끝 부분에 탄소나 노튜브를 화학기상법으로 증착하여 제작하였다. 제작된 탄소나노튜브를 이용하여 전자빔 인출실험을 수행하였다. 개발 중인 탄소나노튜브 팁을 이용한 고휘도 전자빔원의 설계 특성 및 기초 실험결과를 보고한다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.433-433
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• 2016

Carbon nanotubes (CNT) emitter has widely become an attractive mechanism that draws growing interests for cold cathode field emission. CNT yarns have demonstrated its potential as excellent field emitters. It was demonstrated that a small focal spot size was achieved by manipulating some electrical parameters, such as applied bias voltage at the mesh gate, and electrostatic focal lenses, geometrical parameters, such as axial distances of the anode, and the electrostatic focal lens from the cathode assembly, and the dimension of the opening of the electrostatic lens. Electrical-optics software was used to systematically investigate the behavior of the electron beam trajectory when the aforementioned variables were manipulated. The results of the experiment agree with the theoretical simulation results. Each variable has an individual effect on the electron beam focal spot size impinging on the target anode. An optimum condition of the parameters was obtained producing good quality of X-ray images. Also, MWCNT yarn was investigated for field emission characteristics and its contribution in the X-ray generation. The dry spinning method was used to fabricate MWCNT yarn from super MWCNTs, which was fabricated by MW-PECVD. The MWCNT yarn has a significant field emission capability in both diode and the triode X-ray generation structure compared to a MWCNT. The low-voltage-field emission of the MWCNT yarn can be attributed to the field enhancing effect of the yarn due to its shape and the contribution of the high-aspect-ratio nanotubes that protrude from the sides of the yarn. Observations of the use of filters on the development of X-ray images were also demonstrated. The amount of exposure time of the samples to the X-ray was also manipulated. The MWCNT yarn can be a good candidate for use in the low voltage field emission application of X-ray imaging.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2011년도 제41회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.392-392
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• 2011

Carbon nanotubes (CNT) emitter has widely become an attractive mechanism that draws growing interests for cold cathode field emission.$^{1,2}$ CNT yarns have demonstrated its potential as excellent field emitters.$^3$ Extensive simulations were carried out in designing a CNT yarn-based cathode assembly. The focal spot size dependence on the anode surface of the geometric parameters such as axial distance of the electrostatic focus lens from the cathode and the applied bias voltages at the cathode, grid mesh and electrostatic focus lens were studied. The detailed computer simulations using Opera 3D electromagnetic software$^4$ had revealed that a remarkable size of focal spot under a focusing lens triode type set-up design was achieved. The result of this optimization simulation would then be applied for the construction of the CNT yarn based micro-focus x-ray tube with its field emission characteristics evaluated.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2009

삼극형(triode type) 전자 방출원을 프린팅된 CNT(Carbon Nanotube) 에미터를 이용하여 제작하였다. 후면노광(Back Exposure)방법으로 CNT 에미터의 높이를 균일하게 하고, 나노 Ag를 첨가하여 CNT와 전극 사이의 접착력 및 전기전도성을 높임으로써 고전압, 고전류 구동 시 신뢰성을 확보하였다. 게이트 높이가 에미터 길이에 비해 비교적 높은 매크로 게이트 구조를 사용하여 누설 전류가 적고 안정적인 구동이 가능하였다. 제작된 삼극형 전자 방출원은 DC 전압이 인가된 상태에서 일정시간동안 전계방출 전류를 측정하여 신뢰성을 평가하였다. 가열 배기 에이징(Aging) 과정을 거친 경우 약 12 시간동안 안정적인 전계방출 특성을 보였다. 이 때 게이트 누설전류는 약 10 % 미만이었다.