Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
EMISSION OF ELECTRONS INDUCED BY AN ELECTROSTATIC FIELD
Field emitter; Fowler–Nordheim equation; Fowler–Nordheim tunneling; Field emission current; Cold emission; Fowler-Nordheim tunneling; Fowler-Nordheim equation; Field emission; Field emitter microtube; Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling; Fowler–Nordheim-type equations; Cold field electron emission; Fowler-Nordheim-type equations; Fowler–Nordheim equations; Fowler-Nordheim equations
<
electronics> (US: "tunneling") The quantum mechanical effect
exploited in
EAPROM and {Flash Erasable Programmable Read
Only Memory}. It differs from
Frenkel-Pool Tunnelling in
that it does not rely on defects in the
semiconductor.
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(2001-09-27)