Influence of the heterojunction on the field emission from tetrahedral amorphous carbon on Si

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1908-1910

  Rupesinghe, N L ^a   Chhowalla, M ^a   Amaratunga, G A J ^a   Weightman, P ^b   Martin, D ^b   Unsworth, P ^b   Murray, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001420031     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1310623     Document Type: Article

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