New scaling of child-langmuir law in the quantum regime

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Ang, L K ^a   Kwan, T J T ^b   Lau, Y Y ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ENERGY GAP; FERMI LEVEL;

CHILD LANGMUIR LAW; ELECTRON EXCHANGE CORRELATION INTERACTION; HARTREE ENERGY LEVEL; NANOMETER SCALE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0347477230     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.208303     Document Type: Article

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