Saul Dushman investigated electron emission from metals as a function of temperature. Thermal emission connects the population of sufficiently energetic electrons with the energy required to escape a surface.
The strong temperature dependence makes the phenomenon useful in electron sources, while the surface state and work function affect quantitative interpretation.[ref]
Physical chemistry.[ref]
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