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WE have set out to study the contamination of metal surfaces, using the field emission from fine points to give large-scale patterns representing the angular distribution of electron emission.
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BENJAMIN, M., JENKINS, R. Surface Structures of Possibly Atomic Dimensions using Autelectronic or ‘Field’ Emission from Fine Metal Points. Nature 143, 599 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143599a0
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