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Role of work function distribution on field emission effects: Gaussian work function distribution

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Authors:

(1) Nandan Pakhira, Department of Physics, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal 713340, India;

(2) Rajib Mahato, Department of Physics, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal 713340, India and Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, Rajasthan 333031, India.

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Abstract and 1 Introduction

II. Mathematical Formalism

III. Work Function Distribution

IV. Results

A. Gaussian work function distribution

B. Log-normal work function distribution

V. Conclusion, Acknowledgements, and References

IV. RESULTS

In this section we show our results for current density averaged over two choice of probability distributions as have been discussed in the previous section.

A. Gaussian work function distribution

We first consider the case of Gaussian distribution for the work function. In Fig. 1 we show the histogram plot of the work function, sampled over Gaussian distribution for four choices of bulk work function Φ0 = 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 and 4.5 eV with σ = 0.05. In each case we also fit the histogram plot to Gaussian distribution. From this fit we can see that our choice of random variables for Φ are well sampled over Gaussian distribution.


FIG. 1: (Color online) Histogram plot of work function, Φ, sampled over Gaussian distribution for various average work function, Φ0. Solid line shows fitting to Gaussian distribution and we have chosen σ = 0.05 for all the cases.


1. Case with Φ ≪ EF








2. Case with Φ ≫ EF





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