Vacuum Microelectronic Devices

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 1994, Pages 1006-1034

  Brodie, Ivor ^a   Schwoebel, Paul Richard ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON GUNS; ELECTRON SOURCES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUBES; MICROWAVE TUBES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; THERMIONIC TUBES; VACUUM TECHNOLOGY;

FLAT PANEL DISPLAY; FOWLER-NORDHEIM EQUATION; MICROFIELD EMISSION; THERMIONIC VACUUM TUBES; VACUUM MICROELECTRONIC DEVICES;

MICROELECTRONICS;

EID: 0028466179     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.293159     Document Type: Article

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