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Temperature effect on the field emission from zirconium islands on tungsten

E. L. KontorovichA. F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. PetersburgT. I. SudakovaA. F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. PetersburgV. N. ShrednikA. F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
Technical Physics Lettersjournal1999en
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The coefficients α T of the change in the work function with temperature are determined experimentally for two-dimensional islands of zirconium on and in the vicinity of the {001} face of tungsten. The values of α T are an order of magnitude higher than those typical for clean metals. The reason is a change in the adatom-adatom binding energy with increasing temperature.

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