100 years of the physics of diodes

Scaling laws for gas breakdown for nanoscale to microscale gaps at atmospheric pressure

(2016) Amanda M. Loveless et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Constriction Resistance and Current Crowding in Electrically Pumped Semiconductor Nanolasers with the Presence of Undercut and Sidewall Tilt

(2016) Peng Zhang et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Edge enhancement control in linear arrays of ungated field emitters

(2016) J. R. Harris et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Effects of temperature dependence of electrical and thermal conductivities on the Joule heating of a one dimensional conductor

(2016) F. Antoulinakis et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Ultrafast and nanoscale diodes

(2016) Peng Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS

Child–Langmuir law applicability for a cathode sheath description of glow discharge in hydrogen

(2016) V A Lisovskiy et al.   PHYSICA SCRIPTA

Fractional-dimensional Child-Langmuir law for a rough cathode

(2016) M. Zubair et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Stability of Brillouin flow in the presence of slow-wave structure

(2016) D. H. Simon et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Maximum time-dependent space-charge limited diode currents

(2016) M. E. Griswold et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

On relativistic space charge limited current in planar, cylindrical, and spherical diodes

(2016) A. D. Greenwood et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Current-Temperature Scaling for a Schottky Interface with Nonparabolic Energy Dispersion

(2016) Y. S. Ang et al.   Physical Review Applied

Ultrafast strong-field photoelectron emission from biased metal surfaces: exact solution to time-dependent Schrödinger Equation

(2016) Peng Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Shielding in ungated field emitter arrays

(2015) J. R. Harris et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Terahertz pulsed photogenerated current in microdiodes at room temperature

(2015) Marjan Ilkov et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Synchronization in Arrays of Vacuum Microdiodes

(2015) Marjan Ilkov et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES

Modelling field emitter arrays using line charge distributions

(2015) J R Harris et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Morphology dependent field emission of acid-spun carbon nanotube fibers

(2015) S B Fairchild et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Analytical study on emittance growth caused by roughness of a metallic photocathode

(2015) Zhe Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS

Maximal charge injection of a uniform separated electron pulse train in a drift space

(2015) Y. L. Liu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS

Enhancement of coherent Smith-Purcell radiation at terahertz frequency by optimized grating, prebunched beams, and open cavity

(2015) Peng Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS

Molecular dynamics simulations of field emission from a planar nanodiode

(2015) Kristinn Torfason et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Electric micropropulsion systems

(2015) W.P. Wright et al.   PROGRESS IN AEROSPACE SCIENCES

Non-uniform space charge limited current injection into a nano contact solid

(2015) Y. B. Zhu et al.   Scientific Reports

Dependence of optimal spacing on applied field in ungated field emitter arrays

(2015) J. R. Harris et al.   AIP Advances

Electron Thermionic Emission from Graphene and a Thermionic Energy Converter

(2015) Shi-Jun Liang et al.   Physical Review Applied

Scaling for quantum tunneling current in nano- and subnano-scale plasmonic junctions

(2015) Peng Zhang   Scientific Reports

Electromagnetic power absorption due to bumps and trenches on flat surfaces

(2014) Carlos Pérez-Arancibia et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

The quantum mechanics of ion-enhanced field emission and how it influences microscale gas breakdown

(2014) Yingjie Li et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Transition from ultrafast laser photo-electron emission to space-charge-limited current in a 1D gap

(2014) Yangjie Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

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

(2014) D B Go et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Quantum conductivity for metal–insulator–metal nanostructures

(2014) Joseph W. Haus et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

Heating graphene to incandescence and the measurement of its work function by the thermionic emission method

(2014) Feng Zhu et al.   Nano Research

Emittance, surface structure, and electron emission

(2014) Kevin L. Jensen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS

Two-dimensional relativistic space charge limited current flow in the drift space

(2014) Y. L. Liu et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Quantum Plasmon Resonances Controlled by Molecular Tunnel Junctions

(2014) S. F. Tan et al.   SCIENCE

Transition voltage spectroscopy of scanning tunneling microscopy vacuum junctions

(2014) K. Sotthewes et al.   RSC Advances

Concurrent conductance and transition voltage spectroscopy study of scanning tunneling microscopy vacuum junctions. Does it unravel new physics?

(2014) Ioan Bâldea   RSC Advances

Breaking the Space Charge Limit in Organic Solar Cells by a Novel Plasmonic-Electrical Concept

(2014) Wei E. I. Sha et al.   Scientific Reports

Computational and experimental characterization of high-brightness beams for femtosecond electron imaging and spectroscopy

(2013) J. Portman et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Analysis of nonuniform field emission from a sharp tip emitter of Lorentzian or hyperboloid shape

(2013) S. Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Linear stability of electron flow produced by field emission

(2013) A. Rokhlenko et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Time evolution of electron flow in a model diode: Non-perturbative analysis

(2013) A. Rokhlenko et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Current flow in a 3-terminal thin film contact with dissimilar materials and general geometric aspect ratios

(2013) Peng Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Quantum plasmonics

(2013) M. S. Tame et al.   Nature Physics

The University of Maryland Electron Ring Program

(2013) R.A. Kishek et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Time-dependent quantum tunneling and nonequilibrium heating model for the generalized Einstein photoelectric effect

(2013) M. Pant et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Novel Scaling Laws for the Langmuir-Blodgett Solutions in Cylindrical and Spherical Diodes

(2013) Y. B. Zhu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Kinetic Theory of Plasma Sheaths Surrounding Electron-Emitting Surfaces

(2013) J. P. Sheehan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Tunability of the terahertz space-charge modulation in a vacuum microdiode

(2013) P. Jonsson et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Sheaths in laboratory and space plasmas

(2013) Scott Robertson   PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION

Resistive switching in lateral junctions with nanometer separated electrodes

(2013) Martin Ziegler et al.   SOLID-STATE ELECTRONICS

Constriction Resistance and Current Crowding in Vertical Thin Film Contact

(2013) Peng Zhang et al.   IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society

Fowler–Nordheim Tunneling Induced Charge Transfer Plasmons between Nearly Touching Nanoparticles

(2012) Lin Wu et al.   ACS Nano

Ultrafast electron diffraction with radio-frequency compressed electron pulses

(2012) Robert P. Chatelain et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Transition voltage spectroscopy in vacuum break junction: Possible role of surface states

(2012) Ioan Bâldea   EPL

Transport across nanogaps using self-consistent boundary conditions

(2012) D. Biswas et al.   EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B

On the Spreading Resistance of Thin-Film Contacts

(2012) Peng Zhang et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES

Space charge and quantum effects on electron emission

(2012) Kevin L. Jensen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Fundamental properties of field emission-driven direct current microdischarges

(2012) Paul Rumbach et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Space charge effects in ultrafast electron diffraction and imaging

(2012) Zhensheng Tao et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Comparison of SAM-Based Junctions with Ga2O3/EGaIn Top Electrodes to Other Large-Area Tunneling Junctions

(2012) Christian A. Nijhuis et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Transition voltage spectroscopy: Artefacts of the Simmons approach

(2012) Ioan Bâldea   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF SOLIDS

Nanoplasmonics: Classical down to the Nanometer Scale

(2012) Huigao Duan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Revealing the quantum regime in tunnelling plasmonics

(2012) Kevin J. Savage et al.   NATURE

Transition voltage spectroscopy in vacuum break junction: The standard tunneling barrier model and beyond

(2012) Ioan Bâldea et al.   PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI B-BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS

Thermoelectric efficiency in the space-charge-limited transport regime in semiconductors

(2012) François Léonard   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Beyond the Child-Langmuir limit

(2012) R. E. Caflisch et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Ang Replies:

(2012) L. K. Ang   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Comment on “New Scaling of Child-Langmuir Law in the Quantum Regime”

(2012) Debabrata Biswas   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Absence of Debye Sheaths due to Secondary Electron Emission

(2012) M. D. Campanell et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Evidence on single-molecule transport in electrostatically-gated molecular transistors

(2012) Ioan Bâldea et al.   PHYSICS LETTERS A

Amended conjecture on an upper bound to time-dependent space-charge limited current

(2012) M. E. Griswold et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Space-charge effects in ultrafast electron diffraction patterns from single crystals

(2012) Robert P. Chatelain et al.   ULTRAMICROSCOPY

Bridging quantum and classical plasmonics with a quantum-corrected model

(2012) Ruben Esteban et al.   Nature Communications

Child–Langmuir law in the Coulomb blockade regime

(2011) Yingbin Zhu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Space charge limited electron flow in two dimensions without magnetic field

(2011) A. Rokhlenko et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Analysis of electric field screening by the proximity of two knife-edge field emitters

(2011) Wilkin Tang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Transition Voltage Spectroscopy and the Nature of Vacuum Tunneling

(2011) M. L. Trouwborst et al.   NANO LETTERS

Anode plasma dynamics in the self-magnetic-pinch diode

(2011) Nichelle Bruner et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS

Two-dimensional electromagnetic Child–Langmuir law of a short-pulse electron flow

(2011) S. H. Chen et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Space charge limited current in a gap combined of free space and solid

(2010) W. Chandra et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Space charge limited electron emission from a Cu surface under ultrashort pulsed laser irradiation

(2010) W. Wendelen et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Space-charge-limited current in organic light emitting diodes

(2010) Fabrizio Torricelli et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Space charge limited conduction with exponential trap distribution in reduced graphene oxide sheets

(2010) Daeha Joung et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

An analytical formulation for the modified Paschen’s curve

(2010) Rakshit Tirumala et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Overview of Self-Magnetically Pinched-Diode Investigations on RITS-6

(2010) Kelly D. Hahn et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE

Field effects in alkali ion emitters: Transition from Langmuir–Child to Schottky regime

(2010) Thomas Kolling et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Space charge effects in field emission: Three dimensional theory

(2010) Kevin L. Jensen   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Space charge effects in field emission: One dimensional theory

(2010) A. Rokhlenko et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

A mathematical model of the modified Paschen’s curve for breakdown in microscale gaps

(2010) David B. Go et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Cathode R&D for future light sources

(2010) D.H. Dowell et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

New source technologies and their impact on future light sources

(2010) B.E. Carlsten et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Free electron lasers: Present status and future challenges

(2010) W.A. Barletta et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Laser-induced field emission from a tungsten tip: Optical control of emission sites and the emission process

(2010) Hirofumi Yanagisawa et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Multiphoton Photoemission from a Copper Cathode Illuminated by Ultrashort Laser Pulses in an rf Photoinjector

(2010) P. Musumeci et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Space-Charge Modulation in Vacuum Microdiodes at THz Frequencies

(2010) Andreas Pedersen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Tip-Enhanced Strong-Field Photoemission

(2010) R. Bormann et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

An upper bound to time-averaged space-charge limited diode currents

(2010) M. E. Griswold et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Experimental investigation of transition from Fowler–Nordheim field emission to space-charge-limited flows in a nanogap

(2009) Sudeep Bhattacharjee et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Validating the collision-dominated Child–Langmuir law for a dc discharge cathode sheath in an undergraduate laboratory

(2009) V Lisovskiy et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

100 W Operation of a Cold Cathode TWT

(2009) David R. Whaley et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES

Schottky’s conjecture on multiplication of field enhancement factors

(2009) Ryan Miller et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Analysis of radio-frequency absorption and electric and magnetic field enhancements due to surface roughness

(2009) Peng Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Two-dimensional model of space charge limited electron injection into a diode with Schottky contact

(2009) William Chandra et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Maximum Achievable Beam Brightness from Photoinjectors

(2009) Ivan V. Bazarov et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Breakdown of a Space Charge Limited Regime of a Sheath in a Weakly Collisional Plasma Bounded by Walls with Secondary Electron Emission

(2009) D. Sydorenko et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Virtual cathode emission of an annular cold cathode

(2009) S.-d. Park et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS

Two-dimensional axisymmetric Child–Langmuir scaling law

(2009) Benjamin Ragan-Kelley et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Experimental study of space-charge-limited flows in a nanogap

(2008) Sudeep Bhattacharjee et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Organic photovoltaic cells based on an acceptor of soluble graphene

(2008) Qian Liu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Organic solar cells with solution-processed graphene transparent electrodes

(2008) Junbo Wu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

The Twelfth Special Issue on High-Power Microwave Generation

(2008) John Luginsland et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE

Scanning tunneling microscopy study of nitrogen incorporated HfO2

(2008) Y. C. Ong et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Exact analysis of surface field reduction due to field-emitted vacuum space charge, in parallel-plane geometry, using simple dimensionless equations

(2008) Richard G. Forbes   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Physics of generalized Fowler-Nordheim-type equations

(2008) Richard G. Forbes   JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY B

Quantum model of space–charge-limited field emission in a nanogap

(2008) W S Koh et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Photovoltage dynamics of the hydroxylated Si(111) surface investigated by ultrafast electron diffraction

(2008) Ryan A. Murdick et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Theory of shot noise in high-current space-charge-limited field emission

(2008) L. Wu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Experimental Generation and Characterization of Uniformly Filled Ellipsoidal Electron-Beam Distributions

(2008) P. Musumeci et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Unusually Strong Space-Charge-Limited Current in Thin Wires

(2008) A. Alec Talin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Nonlinear Theory for a Quantum Diode in a Dense Fermi Magnetoplasma

(2008) P. K. Shukla et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Electron emission contributions to dark current and its relation to microscopic field enhancement and heating in accelerator structures

(2008) Kevin L. Jensen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW SPECIAL TOPICS-ACCELERATORS AND BEAMS

Short-pulse space-charge-limited electron flows in a drift space

(2008) P. Zhang et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Child–Langmuir flow in a planar diode filled with charged dust impurities

(2008) Xiao-yan Tang et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Plasma-sheath instability in Hall thrusters due to periodic modulation of the energy of secondary electrons in cyclotron motion

(2008) D. Sydorenko et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Solution for space charge limited field emission current densities with injection velocity and geometric effects corrections

(2008) Y. Feng et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Plasma physics and related challenges of millimeter-wave-to-terahertz and high power microwave generation

(2008) John H. Booske   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

The Child–Langmuir law and analytical theory of collisionless to collision-dominated sheaths

(2008) M S Benilov   PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY