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A simplified analysis of the field emission from semiconductor superlattices under magnetic quantization
B. Mitra,Kamakhya P. Ghatak +1 more
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In this paper, an attempt was made to study the field emitted current density from semiconductor superlattices under strong magnetic quantuzation in the presence of spin and broadening respectively.About:
This article is published in Physics Letters A.The article was published on 1989-12-18. It has received 21 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Magnetic field & Field electron emission.read more
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On the field emission from HgTe/CdTe supperlattices with graded structures in the presence of a quantizing magnetic field
B. Mitra,Kamakhya P. Ghatak +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the magneto-field emission from HgTe/CdTe superlattices with graded structures was studied and compared with the same emission from the corresponding bulk materials by formulating the respective expressions.
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Effect of magnetic quantization on the field emission from bismuth
Kamakhya P. Ghatak,B. Mitra +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an attempt was made to study the magneto-field emission from Bi by using the Abrikosov dispersion relation in the presence of spin and broadening.
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Simple theoretical analysis of the density-of-states function of Kane type semiconductors in the presence of an external electric field
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the energy spectrum of conduction electrons and the corresponding density-of- states function of III-V, ternary and quaternary semiconductors, whose unperturbed energy band structures are defined by the three band model of Kane, in the presence of an external electric field.
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Simple theoretical analysis of the Fowler-Nordheim field emission from microstructures and quantum wires of optoelectronic materials
Sitangshu Bhattacharya,Debashis De,Sondipon Adhikari,S. Saha,Karunamoy Chatterjee,Sushabhan Choudhury,Kamakhya Prasad Ghatak +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a simplified theoretical formulation of the Fowler-Nordheim field emission (FNFE) under magnetic quantization and also in quantum wires of optoelectronic materials on the basis of a newly formulated electron dispersion law in the presence of strong electric field within the framework of kp formalism was presented.
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The Einstein Relation in Superlattices OP Wide-Band Gap Semiconductors Onder Cross-Field Configuration
Kamakhya P. Ghatak,Badal De +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the Einstein relation in superlattices of wideband gap semiconductors under crossfield configuration and the for-ning materials incorporating spin and broadening of Landau levels.
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