Subthreshold field emission from thin silicon membranes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  Qin, Hua ^a   Kim, Hyun Seok ^a   Blick, Robert H ^a   Westphall, Michael S ^b   Smith, Lloyd M ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS; FIELD EMISSION; SILICON; THIN FILMS;

ELECTRON MULTIPLICATION; SUBTHRESHOLD FIELD EMISSION; THIN SILICON MEMBRANES; ULTRASENSITIVE ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 35649004336     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2805015     Document Type: Article

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