Electron transport at high fields in a-SiO2
- 15 December 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 27 (12), 689-690
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.88340
Abstract
An iterative‐integral technique is used to determine the velocity of hot electrons in a‐SiO2. Deviations from linearity begin for fields above 8×105 V/cm, and saturation of the velocity‐field curve sets in for fields above 1×106 V/cm.Keywords
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