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Quasi-Ballistic Stable Electron Emission from Porous Silicon Cold Cathodes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

X. Sheng  and
N. Koshida
X. Sheng
Affiliation:
Division of Electronic and Information Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo 184, Japan
N. Koshida
Affiliation:
Division of Electronic and Information Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo 184, Japan
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Abstract

Based on the previously-reported porosity multilayer technique, cold electron emission properties of porous silicon (PS) electroluminescent diodes with a structure of Au/PS/n-type Si are further improved by introducing a graded-band multilayer structure. It is shown that electrons are quasiballisticly emitted from PS diodes owing to a significantly reduced electron scattering in PS layer. As a result, the emission current shows a fluctuation-free behavior. These observations are very important for both understanding the electron transport in PS and developing high performance electron emitters in application to vacuum microelectronic technology.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 509: Symposium C – Materials Issues in Vacuum Microelectronics , 1998 , 193
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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