The impact of barrier height distributions in tunnel junctions

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Miller, Casey W ^a   Belyea, Dustin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIER HEIGHTS; BARRIER POTENTIAL; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; EXCHANGE SPLITTING; IMPURITY LEVEL; INHOMOGENEITIES; MODEL TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THERMAL SMEARING; TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS; TUNNEL BARRIER; TUNNELING CONDUCTANCE; TUNNELING MODELS; ZERO TEMPERATURES;

RANDOM ERRORS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; TUNNELS;

TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

EID: 67249151882     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3122600     Document Type: Article

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