fowler-nordheim tunnelling

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
FN tunnelling

   <electronics> (US: "tunneling") The quantum mechanical effect
   exploited in {EAPROM} and {Flash Erasable Programmable Read
   Only Memory}.  It differs from {Frenkel-Pool Tunnelling} in
   that it does not rely on defects in the {semiconductor}.

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   (2001-09-27)