Hypergiant –conducting nanogranular compound materials, as IR-photon detectors forBosoncurrent transport at room temperature with GA/cm² current carrying capability

In vacuum nano electronics different electron sources are used. They usually consist of hot or cold zirconia, tungsten, or carbon tips, the latter being in diamond or nanotube form. Electron sources of a special composite of precious metal crystals, which are embedded in a fullerene matrix, were first developed in 1992 at the Research Institute of Deutsche Telekom FTZ in Darmstadt, Germany. With those very high emission current densities were achieved and were brought to applications. Outstanding room temperature conductivities were achieved with these nanogranular composite materials, and are presented here along with a model to explain the measured data