Initiation of vacuum breakdown and failure mechanism of the carbon nanotube during thermal field emission

Cai Dan^{1, †,}, Liu Lie¹, Ju Jin-Chuan¹, Zhao Xue-Long¹, Zhou Hong-Yu¹, Wang Xiao²

Time-evolutions of CNT maximum temperature T_max for several different values of L ranging from 3.3 μm to 4.65 μm (r = 6 nm, R_contact = 1000 Ω, E₀ = 200 kV/cm).