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Tunnelling between metals and insulators and its role in contact electrification

J Lowell

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Tunnelling of electrons between a metal and localised states in an insulator is considered, with a view to determining the charge that an insulator can acquire by this mechanism when it is contacted to a metal, and also the extent to which it can lose charge by back-tunnelling during separation. Traps at a single energy are considered primarily, but some attention is given to traps distributed over a range of energy. Back-tunnelling is likely to be significant only at the very highest observed charge densities.


PACS

73.40.Gk Tunneling

Subjects

Surfaces, interfaces and thin films

Dates

Issue 9 (14 September 1979)



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