Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of thermionic emission processes in abrupt semiconductor junctions, including the effects of surface states

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 233, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 208-220

  Gomila, G ^a   Perez Madrid A ^a   Rubi J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODELS; PHYSICS; THERMIONIC POWER GENERATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

SURFACE STATES; THERMIONIC EMISSION;

SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

EID: 0030290085     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(96)00229-4     Document Type: Article

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