Title :
Experimental confirmation of the Fowler Nordheim plot at several micro-meters emitter to anode distance
Author :
Ashihara, K. ; Nakane, H. ; Adachi, H.
Author_Institution :
Muroran Inst. of Technol., Japan
fDate :
July 30 1995-Aug. 3 1995
Abstract :
The slope of a Fowler-Nordheim plot for field emission current has a tendency to decrease with decreasing emitter to anode distance at a micro-meter range. Fairly good coincidence of the tendency between the experimental results and the numerically calculated ones confirms that the Fowler-Nordheim equation is still effective for such a short emitter to anode distance as less than one micro-meter.
Keywords :
electron field emission; Fowler-Nordheim equation; field emission current; microvacuum element; submicrometer emitter to anode distance; Anodes; Bellows; Cathodes; Electrodes; Electron emission; Electron microscopy; Equations; Needles; Numerical analysis; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Vacuum Microelectronics Conference, 1995. IVMC., 1995 International
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2143-X
DOI :
10.1109/IVMC.1995.487002
