Emission Area of a Field Emitter Array

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 666-672

  Jenkins, D W ^a  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

EMISSION AREAS; FIELD EMITTER ARRAYS; FOWLER-NORDHEIM FORMALISM;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 0027557550     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.199375     Document Type: Article

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