Abstract
The mechanism of the innovative adsorption based field emission hydrogen sensing technique is investigated from experimental and first-principles investigations. Hydrogen pressure from 10−3 to 10−7 Pa range could be detected. High carbon nanotube (CNT) crystallinity plays key role for the reduction of the effective work function from the dissociated hydrogen adsorption, leading to the field emission current increase. For CNT emitters with high dangling-bond (DB) type of defects/structures, the dissociated H adsorption occurs preferentially on the DB site with negligible work function variation. Joule heating & temperature rising is a core factor to assist the dissociated hydrogen adsorption with enhanced sensing effect. For work function sensitive CNT devices, operations under hydrogen & high temperature conditions may produce performance stability issue.
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