Nonlinear optical response of metal-barrier-metal junctions
- 15 February 1977
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 30 (4) , 177-179
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.89341
Abstract
The time-averaged current induced by incident radiation across electronic tunneling junctions is shown experimentally and theoretically to have a highly nonlinear dependence on the field intensity for a range of tunneling barrier thickness.Keywords
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