| Abstract: | We determined that, during the voltage treatment of an insulator in the metal-insulator-electrolyte system, localized defects with enhanced conductivities appear on the surface of the metal-insulator system; the structure and the external form of these defects are determined by voltage polarity. The presence of the enhanced conductivity channels which form when the base electrode is negatively biased leads to a 2–4 fold greater increase in the density of the emission centers in the MIM system after the electrical formation than in the system where, prior to the deposition of the top electrode, the insulator was not subjected to voltage.Automated Control Systems and Radioelectronics Institute, Tomsk. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 10, pp. 48–50, October, 1992. |
