Abstract
We report the discovery of a new method for the generation of light. This technique yields a broad-band light source with a high frequency linear cutoff which is dependent only upon the applied voltage through the quantum relation . The light source consists of a metal-insulator-metal tunneling junction. The effect can be interpreted in terms of inelastic tunneling excitation of optically coupled surface plasmon modes.
- Received 4 June 1976
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.37.923
©1976 American Physical Society