Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies attract tremendous attention in recent researches.
New physical properties and new technologies both in sample preparation and device …

Mainstream field electron emission (FE) theory—the theory normally used by FE
experimentalists—employs a Sommerfeld-type free-electron model to describe FE from a …

This paper presents a major reformulation of the standard theory of Fowler–Nordheim (FN)
tunnelling and cold field electron emission (CFE). Mathematical analysis and physical …

The discovery is reported of simple, good approximate formulas for special elliptic functions
that appear in the standard theory of Fowler-Nordheim (FN)[Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A …

Thin flat dielectric films can be low-macroscopic-field (LMF) electron emitters, able to
generate electrons when subject to a macroscopic electric field in the range 1–50 Vμm− 1 …

The commonest method of characterizing a cold field electron emitter is to measure its
current-voltage characteristics, and the commonest method of analysing these …

Modern technological applications of electron beam devices require development and
creation of new electron sources with parameters that were not previously achievable. The …

The canonical equations of electron emission are the Richardson-Laue-Dushman equation
for thermionic emission, the Fowler-Nordheim equation for field emission, and the Fowler …

Preferential sequestering of tailored metal nanocrystals into a self‐assembled lamellar
diblock copolymer yields metallodielectric photonic structures that exhibit high rejection …

This paper contributes to Fowler–Nordheim (FN) theory, ie the theory of cold field emission
of electrons from metals, by summarising recent developments in standard FN theory and its …