Electronic tunneling currents at optical frequencies
- 1 December 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 27 (11), 629-631
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.88314
Abstract
Rectification characteristics of nonsuperconducting metal‐barrier‐metal junctions as deduced from electronic tunneling theory have been observed experimentally for optical frequency irradiation of the junction.Keywords
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