DOI: 10.1063/1.89434. Enhancement of light emission from metal-insulator-metal tunnel junctions

Enhancement of light emission from metal-insulator-metal tunnel junctions

10.1063/1.89434

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Applied Physics Letters (317)

Abstract

Light emission from metal-insulator-metal tunnel junctions is enhanced using two schemes for improving photon-surface plasmo coupling. Results reported here establish that the light emission arises from radiative decay of junction surface plasmon modes excited by inelastic electron tunneling. The enhanced light-emitting tunnel junctions have an external quantum efficiency in the 10−5 range.

Bibliography

McCarthy, S. L., & Lambe, J. (1977). Enhancement of light emission from metal-insulator-metal tunnel junctions. Applied Physics Letters, 30(8), 427â429.

Authors 2

S. L. McCarthy (first)
John Lambe (additional)

References 10 Referenced 92

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Dates

Type	When
Created	22 years, 6 months ago (Feb. 13, 2003, 3:15 p.m.)
Deposited	1 year, 6 months ago (Feb. 5, 2024, 5:02 a.m.)
Indexed	3 weeks, 5 days ago (July 27, 2025, 3:39 a.m.)
Issued	48 years, 4 months ago (April 15, 1977)
Published	48 years, 4 months ago (April 15, 1977)
Published Print	48 years, 4 months ago (April 15, 1977)

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BibTeX

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