• DocumentCode
    1065469
  • Title

    Field-enhanced thermionic-emission diode experiment

  • Author

    Hant, William

  • Author_Institution
    Northrop Corporation, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA
  • Volume
    26
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1979
  • fDate
    10/1/1979 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1573
  • Lastpage
    1576
  • Abstract
    The analysis and experimental results are presented for a cylindrical field-enhanced thermionic-emission diode. The diode was designed to simulate the cathode electric field, emission-current density, and vacuum environment anticipated for large-area repetitively pulsed guns required for UV and visible laser excitation. Test results indicate that up to 800-A/cm2cathode-emission current density was obtained from 1.1-cm-long, 0.00254-cm-diameter tungsten, with 3- percent Re filaments. The diodes operated stably under standard high-vacuum conditions for the discharge period of a 2-µs RC circuit.
  • Keywords
    Anodes; Cathodes; Current density; Equations; Guns; Laser excitation; Schottky diodes; Temperature; Thermionic emission; Tungsten;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9383
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/T-ED.1979.19654
  • Filename
    1480232
    • Link To Document
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