| Issue |
J. Eur. Opt. Soc.-Rapid Publ.
Volume 13, Number 1, 2017
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| Article Number | 4 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1186/s41476-017-0033-0 | |
| Published online | 25 January 2017 | |
Research
The laser assisted field electron emission from carbon nanostructure
1
Texas State University, 601 University Drive, 78666, San Marcos, TX, USA
2
Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Eastern Finland, 80101, Joensuu, Finland
3
Department of Physics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia
4
ITMO University, 199034, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Received:
25
November
2016
Accepted:
2
January
2017
We present experimental and theoretical study of the femtosecond light-assisted field electron emission from nanocarbon films. We demonstrate that irradiation with intense femtosecond laser pulse allows one to achieve electron emission density of up to 13 nC/cm2 at a moderate applied static electric filed. The developed model well describes obtained experimental results and allows us to visualize physical mechanisms including heating of electron gas, multiphoton photoionization, and the space charge formation, which are responsible for the observed phenomena.
Key words: Carbon nanostructures / Field emission / Thermionic emission / Ultrashort laser pulses
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