. Along with a review of the theory of work functions and quantum mechanical tunneling, numerical calculations of the tunneling current based on the free-electron model of the electrodes and the barrier, an image-potential reduced barrier, and a WKB approximation for the tunneling probability have been performed and compared with Simmons' theory and with the experimental results.
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E. Clayton Teague (1986) studied this question.