Cooling by inverse Nottingham effect with resonant tunneling

International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1083-1100

  Yu, Y ^a   Greene, R F ^a   Tsu, R ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold cathode emitter; Field emission; Inverse Nottingham Effect; Resonant tunneling

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING; COLD CATHODE TUBES; COOLING; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON EMISSION; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FERMI LEVEL; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOSFET DEVICES; PHOTONS; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

COLD CATHODE EMITTERS; FIELD EMISSION; INVERSE NOTTINGHAM EFFECT;

RESONANT TUNNELING;

EID: 1542474841     PISSN: 01291564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129156402001939     Document Type: Article

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