Using first-principles density-functional theory investigate (5, 5) capped single-walled carbon nanotubes adsorbed at one end by hydrogen molecule with and without an applied electric field. It is found that the structure of carbon nanotubes with hydrogen molecules is stable under field-emission conditions. The induced dipole moments is the direction of the applied electric field,and the LUMO-HOMO energy gaps decrease. These results elucidate that the field-emission properties of carbon nanotubes can be enhanced by the adsorption of hydrogen molecules, and are consistent with the experimental results.
Carbon nanotubes(CNTs) films were fabricated by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD) on stainless steel substrates. In order to study the reason that its emission current weakens, the CNTs films were treated by hydrogen plasma. The research discovered that the hydrogen plasma treatment to the carbon nanotubes films reduced the surface work function of the film and its filed emission current, this mainly due to the etching of hydrogen plasma to sp2 carbon on the surface, it leads emission area to decrease.
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