Tunnel Emission into Vacuum
- 1 June 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 33 (6), 1999-2000
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1728880
Abstract
Tunnel emission into vacuum is obtained from thin‐film sandwiches of (a) aluminum‐alumina‐aluminum and (b) aluminum‐alumina‐platinum. The alumina layer is made by oxidizing an evaporated film of aluminum in air. Cesium processing, to lower the work function, results in an increase of emission of five orders of magnitude.Keywords
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