Walter Schottky
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Walter Schottky was a German physicist and electrical engineer who played a major early role in developing the theory of thermionic emission, invented the screen-grid vacuum tube in 1915, co-invented
Schottky, c. 1920
Schottky effect
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The Schottky effect or field enhanced thermionic emission is a phenomenon in condensed matter physics named after Walter H. Schottky. In electron emission devices, especially electron guns, the thermi
Walter Schottky
…with Erwin Gerlach in 1924, and later made many significant contributions in the areas of semiconductor devices, technical physics, and technology. The Schottky effect (a thermionic emission; important for vacuum tube technology), the Schottky diode (where the depletion layer occurring in it is called the Schottky…
Schottky-emitter electron source of an Electron microscope