Abstract
The cathode of graphene was prepared by the electrophoretic deposition (EPD) and ZnO quantum dots (QDs) were grown on the surface of graphene sheets by solution method to improve the field emission (FE) properties. The graphene/ZnO QDs hybrid emitters exhibited efficient field emission with lower turn-on field of 0.9V/μm, lower threshold field of 2.6V/μm, higher field enhancement factor of 3923 and more stable emission current stability than pristine graphene. The improved field emission performance was attributed to ZnO QDs, which introduce more defects, increase the number of emitting sites and decrease the work function. This investigation proposed that graphene/ZnO QDs composites are promising field cathodes in FE applications.
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