COLD-CATHODE EMITTER BASED ON A METAL-DIAMOND TUNNELING JUNCTION

Authors
LERNER P CUTLER PH MISKOVSKY NM
Citation
P. Lerner et al., COLD-CATHODE EMITTER BASED ON A METAL-DIAMOND TUNNELING JUNCTION, IEEE transactions on dielectrics and electrical insulation, 4(6), 1997, pp. 827-829
Citations number
11
Journal title
IEEE transactions on dielectrics and electrical insulation → ACNP
ISSN journal
10709878
Volume
4
Issue
6
Year of publication
1997
Pages
827 - 829
Database
ISI
SICI code
1070-9878(1997)4:6<827:CEBOAM>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
Recently Gels fabricated a composite cold cathode emitter made of diam ond doped by substitutional nitrogen on a roughened metallic substrate , which is characterized by high field emission currents at very low p ower. Using an internal field emission mechanism through the Schottky barrier at the metal diamond interfaces to populate the conduction ban d of diamond, we have developed a quantitive theory to describe the op eration of such a device. The calculated I-V characteristics are in go od agreement with the experimental results of Geis, et al.