Field Emission in Vacuum Microelectronics

• Main Author: Fursey, George (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Brodie, Ivor (Editor), Schwoebel, Paul (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: Microdevices, Physics and Fabrication Technologies
• Subjects: Physics.; Electrical engineering.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Physics, general.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Electrical Engineering.
• Physical Description: XV, 205 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9780387274195

Field emission is a phenomenon described by quantum mechanics. Its emission capability is millions times higher than that of any other known types of electron emission. Nowadays this phenomenon is experiencing a new life due to wonderful applications in the atomic resolution microscopy, in electronic holography, and in the vacuum micro- and nanoelectronics in general. The main field emission properties, and some most remarkable experimental facts and applications, are described in this book.