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2. Physical Basis for Field Emission

Authors : Vladimir Danilov, Roman Gaydukov, Vadim Kretov

Published in: Mathematical Modeling of Emission in Small-Size Cathode

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

In this chapter, without claiming to be original, we recall some basic notions of the solid-state physics which will be used to construct the mathematical model of the field emission cathode. More detailed descriptions of these facts can be found in any literature on the solid-state physics. Our description is based on [2, 3, 23, 27, 28, 30, 41, 42]. In this chapter, we also present some known notions from the theory of field emission based on the papers and monographs [4, 1012, 17, 20, 34, 36, 37, 39, 43] and several others which will be mentioned in the course of presentation.

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Footnotes
1
The Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin method.
 
2
This quantity does not play any role in studying the problem of field emission.
 
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Metadata
Title
Physical Basis for Field Emission
Authors
Vladimir Danilov
Roman Gaydukov
Vadim Kretov
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Springer Singapore
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0195-1_2

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