An analytical formulation for the modified Paschen's curve

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Tirumala, Rakshit ^a   Go, David B ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUATIONS; ANALYTICAL FORMULATION; BREAKDOWN POTENTIAL; ENHANCED FIELD EMISSION; HIGH ELECTRIC FIELDS; MICRO-SCALES; MICROGAPS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FIELD EMISSION; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES;

CURVE FITTING;

EID: 77958087426     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3497231     Document Type: Article

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15. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3497231 E-APPLAB-97-090040 for a plot of the current model and Paschen's equation for various pressures (Fig. S1), a plot of the current model for various values of β and φ (Fig. S2), and a plot of the current model with ion-enhanced field emission only (Fig. S3).