On electron transport across interfaces connecting materials with different effective masses

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1561-1568

  Grinberg, Anatoly A ^a   Luryi, Serge ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterojunction; Thermionic emission; Transmission

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; THEORY;

THERMIONIC EMISSION;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 0032123675     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.701489     Document Type: Article

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