Three-dimensional Child-Langmuir law for uniform hot electron emission

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-6

  Koh, W S ^a   Ang, L K ^a   Kwan, T J T ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROELECTRONICS; PERMITTIVITY; POISSON EQUATION;

CHILD-LANGMUIR LAW; HARTREE ENERGY LEVEL; MONOENERGETIC EMISSION; QUANTUM SCALING;

ELECTRON EMISSION;

EID: 20844452078     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1913612     Document Type: Article

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