Title : 
Life characteristic of M-type dispenser cathode employed by space TWTs
         
        
            Author : 
Zhiqiang Yu ; Wensheng Shao ; Ji Li ; Hui Wang ; Cheng Cheng
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Beijing Vacuum Electron. Technol. of Inst., Beijing, China
         
        
        
            fDate : 
June 30 2014-July 4 2014
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper will present the more detail on the life experiment and discuss the M-type cathode life characteristic and operating fundamentals. The authors also give some advices for extending cathode life.
         
        
            Keywords : 
cathodes; travelling wave tubes; M-type dispenser cathode; cathode life; life characteristic; space TWT; Barium; Cathodes; Electron tubes; Reliability; Temperature; Tungsten;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Vacuum Electron Sources Conference (IVESC), 2014 Tenth International
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
St. Petersburg
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4799-5770-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/IVESC.2014.6892112