Contact Electrification by Quantum-Mechanical Tunneling

A simple model of charge transfer by loss-less quantum-mechanical tunneling between two solids is proposed. The model is applicable to electron transport and contact electrification between e.g. a metal and a dielectric solid. Based on a one-dimensional effective-mass Hamiltonian, the tunneling tran...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Morten Willatzen, Zhong Lin Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2019-01-01
Series:Research
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.34133/2019/6528689