General thermal-field emission equation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Jensen, Kevin L ^a   Cahay, Marc ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOWLER-NORDHEIM (FN); RICHARDSON-LAUE-DUSHMAN (RLD);

ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ELECTRON EMISSION;

EID: 33646137995     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2193776     Document Type: Article

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