Image forces in STM reduce barrier height and width, increasing tunneling current densities by orders of magnitude, which the authors deem physically unreasonable.
Umesakiet al., Tunneling effect in pro- ton transfer: Transfer matrix approach, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2023), applies TMM to proton-transfer barrier crossing problems
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Image Force Effects on Tunneling Currents in an STM -- I `Point charge in the Barrier Region' - Model
Image forces in STM reduce barrier height and width, increasing tunneling current densities by orders of magnitude, which the authors deem physically unreasonable.