Audience
Physicists, electrical engineers and applied mathematicians in all branches of image processing and microscopy as well as electron physics in general
Contents I. FIELD AND THERMIONIC EMISSION FUNDAMENTALS
A. A Note On Units
B. Free Electron Gas
C. Nearly Free Electron Gas
D. The Surface Barrier
to Electron Emission
E. The Image Charge Approximation
II. THERMAL AND FIELD EMISSION
A. Current Density
B. Exactly Solvable Models
C.
WKB ?Area Under the Curve? Models
D. Numerical Methods
E. The Thermal and Field Emission Equation
F. The Revised FN-RLD Equation and
the inference of Work Function
from experimental data
G. Recent Revisions of the Standard Thermal an Field Models
H. The General Thermal-Field
Equation
I. Thermal Emittance
III. PHOTOEMISSION
A. Background
B. Quantum Efficiency
C. The Probability of emission
D. Reflection and
Penetration Depth
E. Conductivity
F. Scattering Rates
G. Scattering factor
H. Temperature of a Laser-illuminated Surface
I. Numerical
Solution of the Coupled Thermal Equations
J. Revisions to the Modified Fowler Dubridge Model: Quantum Effects
K. Quantum Efficiency Revisited:
A Moments-based Approach
L. The Quantum Efficiency of Bare Metals
M. The Emittance and Brightness of Photocathodes
IV. LOW WORK FUNCTION
COATINGS AND ENHANCED EMISSION
A. Some History
B. A Simple Model of a Low Work Function Coating
C. A Less Simple Model of the Low Work
Function Coating
D. The (Modified) Gyftopoulos-Levine Model of Work Function
Reduction
E. Comparison of the Modified Gyftopoulos-Levine
Model to
Thermionic Data
F. Comparison of the Modified Gyftopoulos-Levine Model to
Photoemission Data
V. APPENDICES
A. Integrals related
to Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein Statistics
B. The Riemann Zeta function
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