Screening and Tunneling at Metal Surfaces
- 15 July 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 8 (2) , 576-581
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.8.576
Abstract
The screening of an external electric field near a metal surface has been determined for the semi-infinite free-electron model with the use of a self-consistent linear-response theory. The resulting self-consistent potential has been used to calculate tunneling (i.e., field-emission) currents.Keywords
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