The Theory of Hot-Electron Photoemission in Schottky-Barrier IR Detectors

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1985, Pages 33-39

  Mooney, Jonathan Martin ^a   Silverman, Jerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS - TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; PHOTOEMISSION - APPLICATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, SCHOTTKY BARRIER - MODELING; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

BALLISTIC TRANSPORT MODELS FOR THIN FILMS; HOT-ELECTRON PHOTOEMISSION;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 0021786171     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1985.21905     Document Type: Article

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