An analytic estimate of the field penetration into metal surfaces
- 1 November 1972
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics
- Vol. 2 (6) , 1124-1136
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4608/2/6/016
Abstract
The field penetration into a metal surface is investigated in this paper. By including both short range and long range interactions it is shown that the work function increases when a high electrostatic field is applied to the metal. The nonlinearity of the response to the external field is shown and results qualitatively different from those of the random phase approximation are obtained.Keywords
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