Schottky Field Emission Through Insulating Layers
- 1 April 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 34 (4) , 877-880
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1729554
Abstract
Pb–Al2O3–Pb structures have been fabricated by vacuum evaporation. For oxide thickness of approximately 300 Å, a forming process was noted. This forming process resulted in large electron transfer currents which were described as the sum of a temperature‐independent current plus a current with a voltage and temperature dependence appropriate to Schottky field emission into a solid. The forming process is assumed to be due to the establishment of a positive ion space charge which increases the field at the cathode.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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