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Jiupeng Li¹, Yu Tu¹, Dewei Ma²

¹School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic Institute, Nanyang 473000, China.

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|September 26, 2025

Summary

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are ideal for field emission (FE) cold-cathodes due to their excellent properties. This review explores CNT cold cathode electron guns, their applications, and future development needs.

Keywords:

carbon nanotube cold cathode electron gun field emission vacuum electron device

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Physics
Engineering

Background:

Field emission (FE) cold-cathodes offer advantages like instant turn-on and room temperature operation.
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess high field enhancement factors, low turn-on voltage, and temporal stability, making them suitable for FE applications.

Purpose of the Study:

To review cold cathode electron guns utilizing various Carbon nanotube (CNT) emitter morphologies.
To discuss research findings on CNT-based microwave electron guns.
To summarize challenges and suggest future directions for CNT cold cathode electron gun technology.

Main Methods:

Review of existing literature on CNT-based cold cathode electron guns.
Analysis of diverse CNT morphologies (disordered, aligned, paste, special surface).
Inclusion of research results from CNT cathode microwave electron guns.

Main Results:

CNT emitters demonstrate high suitability for FE cold-cathodes due to their inherent properties.
CNT cold cathodes are effective in specialized electron beam applications with high-frequency modulation and low energy dispersion.
Established foundation for applications in microwave vacuum electron devices, X-ray equipment, flat-panel displays, and scanning electron microscopes.

Conclusions:

CNT cold cathode electron guns show significant promise across various technological fields.
Further research is needed to address practical application challenges and optimize performance.
Future development should focus on enhancing CNT emitter design and integration for advanced electron beam devices.