Current-voltage relation for thin tunnel barriers: Parabolic barrier model

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 3582-3586

  Hansen, Kim ^a   Brandbyge, Mads ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; FERMI LEVEL; KINETIC ENERGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

PARABOLIC BARRIERS; TUNNEL BARRIERS;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 1942542478     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1650896     Document Type: Article

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