On the screening of the electric field at the cathode surface by an electron space charge at intense field emission

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 436-440

  Batrakov, A V ^a   Pegel, I V ^a   Proskurovsky, D I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH CURRENT ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURRENT DENSITY; DIODES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; ELECTRON EMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

POISSON EQUATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SUPERSAM; VACUUM DIODES;

FIELD EMISSION CATHODES;

EID: 0033365812     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/94.788740     Document Type: Article

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