Role of inelastic effects on tunneling via localized states in metal-insulator-metal tunnel junctions
- 15 July 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 42 (2) , 1492-1495
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.42.1492
Abstract
We report a systematic study on the I-V characteristics (IVC) of tunnel junctions with barriers containing localized states. The study reveals a characteristic dependence of the IVC nonlinearity on the inelastic nature of electron transport via these localized states.Keywords
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