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The process of inelastic tunneling between metallic electrodes can be visualized in terms of a rather simple physical picture (1). In the energy level diagram the two Fermi levels of the metals are separated by the energy eV, with V the applied voltage (Fig. 1).
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Jaklevic, R.C., Lambe, J. (1969). Molecular Excitations in Barriers II. In: Burstein, E., Lundqvist, S. (eds) Tunneling Phenomena in Solids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1752-4_18
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