Enhanced photogeneration of carriers in a semiconductor via coupling across a nonisothermal nanoscale vacuum gap

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1894-1896

  DiMatteo, R S ^a   Greiff, P ^a   Finberg, S L ^a   Young Waithe, K A ^b   Choy, H K H ^b   Masaki, M M ^b   Fonstad, C G ^b  

^a CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

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EID: 0035903434     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1400762     Document Type: Article

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