AN EMPIRICAL FORMULA FOR CALCULATING WORK FUNCTION OF ELEMENTS
S TI · 中国科学通报：英文版 · 1992
Work function of an element is an important measure for inquiring into the physical properties of crystals. It is concerned with not only the properties of the element itself, number and distribution of outermost electrons and so on, but also the temperature, surface and volume effects, external electric field and adsorption film.