[HTML][HTML] 100 years of the physics of diodes

P Zhang, Á Valfells, LK Ang, JW Luginsland… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The Child–Langmuir Law (CL), discovered a century ago, gives the maximum current that
can be transported across a planar diode in the steady state. As a quintessential example of …

Microscale gas breakdown: ion-enhanced field emission and the modified Paschen's curve

DB Go, A Venkattraman - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Gas breakdown at microscale dimensions has been of great interest to the
microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and plasma communities for nearly 15 years as …

[BOOK][B] Introduction to the physics of electron emission

KL Jensen - 2017 - books.google.com
A practical, in-depth description of the physics behind electron emission physics and its
usage in science and technology Electron emission is both a fundamental phenomenon and …

Comments on the continuing widespread and unnecessary use of a defective emission equation in field emission related literature

RG Forbes - Journal of Applied Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Field electron emission (FE) has relevance in many technological contexts. However, many
technological papers use a physically defective elementary FE equation for local emission …

Scaling law for direct current field emission-driven microscale gas breakdown

A Venkattraman, AA Alexeenko - Physics of Plasmas, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The effects of field emission on direct current breakdown in microscale gaps filled with an
ambient neutral gas are studied numerically and analytically. Fundamental numerical …

[HTML][HTML] Unification of field emission and space charge limited emission with collisions

AM Darr, AM Loveless, AL Garner - Applied Physics Letters, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Electron emission plays a vital role in device design for systems with pressures ranging from
vacuum to atmospheric pressure. Nonuniform pressure in vacuum devices and gap sizes …

Review of the gas breakdown physics and nanomaterial-based ionization gas sensors and their applications

JY Kim, I Kaganovich, HC Lee - Plasma Sources Science and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Ionization gas sensors are ubiquitous tools that can monitor desired gases or detect
abnormalities in real time to protect the environment of living organisms or to maintain clean …

Extended scaling and Paschen law for micro-sized radiofrequency plasma breakdown

MU Lee, J Lee, JK Lee, GS Yun - Plasma Sources Science and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The single particle motion analysis and particle-in-cell merged with Monte Carlo collision
(PIC/MCC) simulations are compared to explain substantial breakdown voltage reduction for …

Unification of the breakdown criterion for thermal field emission-driven microdischarges

C Lin, J Chen, H Wang, Y Fu - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Determining the characteristics of thermal field emission-induced breakdown is essential for
various electron emission devices, such as thermionic energy converters. In previous …

Frequency response of atmospheric pressure gas breakdown in micro/nanogaps

A Semnani, A Venkattraman, AA Alexeenko… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we study gas breakdown in micro/nanogaps at atmospheric pressure from low
RF to high millimeter band. For gaps larger than about 10 μm, the breakdown voltage …