Krishnia, Lucky and Yadav, Brajesh S. and Palnitkar, Umesh and Satyam, P. V. and Gupta, Bipin Kumar and Koratkar, Nikhil A. and Tyagi, Pawan K. (2018) As-pyrolyzed sugarcane bagasse possessing exotic field emission properties. Applied Surface Science, 443. pp. 184-190. ISSN 0169-4332

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Abstract

The present study aims to demonstrate the application of sugarcane bagasse as an excellent field emitter. Field emission property of as-pyrolyzed sugarcane bagasse (p-SBg) before and after the plasma treatment has been investigated. It has been observed that electronic nature of p-SBg transformed from semiconducting to metallic after plasma treatment. Maximum current and turn-on field defined at 10 mu A/cm(2) was found to be 800 mu A/cm(2) and 2.2 V/mu m for as-pyrolyzed sugarcane bagasse (p-SBg) and 25 mu A/cm(2) and 8.4 V/mu m for H-2-plasma treated p-SBg. These values are found to be better than the reported values for graphene and activated carbon. In this report, pyrolysis of bagasse has been carried in a thermal chemical vapor deposition (Th-CVD) system in inert argon atmosphere. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray Diffraction (XRD), High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) have been used to study the structure of both pre and post plasma-treated p-SBg bagasse's sample. HRTEM study reveals that carbonaceous structures such as 3D-nanographene oxide (3D-NGO), graphite nanodots (GNDs), carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and carbon onions are present in both pre-treated and plasma-treated p-SBg. Hence, we envision that the performed study will be a forwarding step to facilitate the application of p-SBg in display devices.

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Subjects:	Chemistry > Physical Chemistry Materials Science Applied Physics/Condensed Matter
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Date Deposited:	17 Dec 2019 08:18
Last Modified:	17 Dec 2019 08:18
URI:	http://npl.csircentral.net/id/eprint/3798

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