This tool was developed based on the seminal work of A.Venkattraman and A. Alexeenko "Scaling law of direct current field emission driven microscale gas breakdown". Also the tool presents a second non-dimensional approach based on the work of Loveless and Garner in their publication "Scaling laws for gas breakdown for nanoscale to microscale gaps at atmospheric pressure”.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Venkattraman, A., & Alexeenko, A. A. (2012). Scaling law for direct current field emission-driven microscale gas breakdown. Physics of Plasmas, 19(12). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4773399

  Loveless, A. M., & Garner, A. L. (2016). Scaling laws for gas breakdown for nanoscale to microscale gaps at atmospheric pressure. Applied Physics Letters, 108(23). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4953202

   

• Sebastian Camilo Mendoza Rincon, Siva Sashank Tholeti, Alina Alexeenko (2017), "Breakdown Voltage & Current Density Calculator for meso scale gaps," https://nanohub.org/resources/breakdowncal7. (DOI: 10.4231/D3WP9T79X).

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1. Breakdown voltage
2. current density
3. discharge
4. field emission
5. field enhancement
6. Fowler Nordheim
7. Gas discharge
8. microgaps
9. Microplasma
10. Modified Paschen's Curve
11. nanoelectronics