On the field effect of the electrical conductance of discontinuous thin metal films
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 48 (2) , 818-819
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.323632
Abstract
In the activated tunneling model of electrical conductance of discontinuous thin metal films, non-Ohmic conductance has thus far been explained by a field-dependent activation energy at a high electric field. We point out that this interpretation is not appropriate. Alternatively, the field effect should be ascribed to the non-Ohmicity of the tunneling current density at a high electric field. Results of the computation are presented.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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