CORRELATION BETWEEN ELECTROLUMINESCENCE AND ELECTRON EMISSION OF THIN METAL-OXIDE-METAL SANDWICHES
- 1 November 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 11 (9) , 287-289
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1755137
Abstract
Experiments performed on M‐O‐M sandwiches of Be–BeO–Au and Al–Al2O3–Ag have demonstrated that the electron emission of these so called thin‐film ``cathodes'' is actually due to photoemission from the counterelectrode caused by the luminescence of the device.Keywords
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