Use of Millikan-Lauritsen plots, rather than Fowler-Nordheim plots, to analyze field emission current-voltage data

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Forbes, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE; FIELD ELECTRON EMISSIONS; FIELD EMISSION CURRENTS; FN PLOTS; FOWLER-NORDHEIM PLOTS; PARAMETER VALUES; VOLTAGE DEPENDENCE;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FIELD EMISSION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649556936     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3140602     Document Type: Article

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