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Cesium field desorption for visualization of graphite nanostructures on the surface of a rhenium field emitter

D.P. Bernatskii, V.G. Pavlov

Ioffe Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia

DOI: 10.26456/pcascnn/2019.11.091

Abstract: Desorption of cesium atoms in an electric field from the carbonized rhenium field emitter was investigated by the field desorption microscopy. The effect of the concentration of cesium atoms on the voltage and on the distribution of emission centers on the surface of the emitter is studied. It is shown that rhenium carburization can lead to a surface modification with the formation of carbon nanostructures.

Keywords: field desorption microscopy, electric field, field emitter, alkali metals, graphite nanostructures.

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Bernatskii, D.P. Cesium field desorption for visualization of graphite nanostructures on the surface of a rhenium field emitter / D.P. Bernatskii, V.G. Pavlov // Physical and chemical aspects of the study of clusters, nanostructures and nanomaterials: Interuniversity collection of proceedings / Ed. by V.M. Samsonov, N.Yu. Sdobnyakov. – Tver: TSU, 2019. – I. 11. – P. 91-96.

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