Phonon-Assisted Tunneling through Amorphous Germanium
- 1 May 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 28 (18), 1198-1201
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.28.1198
Abstract
We report the observation of electron tunneling between two metal electrodes separated by an amorphous germanium layer. Measurements of the derivative of the conductance with respect to the applied voltage yield the tunneling phonon density of states for amorphous germanium.Keywords
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