Ion explosive emission in microwave field

In a microwave field at a liquid conducting surface, a super-small microrelief with a high field amplification factor can be produced. Field-electron and field-ion emission from this structure were initiated simultaneously at appropriate half-wave of the field as a stable phase and this process was limited only by the thermal balance at the emitter surface in the microwave field. This balanced mode can be shifted to an aperiodic stage both by static and microwave field but with different efficiency and results. The increase of microwave field does not lead to the uncontrollable filling of the resonator with emitter substance and a new mode of high-current ion emission is possible in this case. For the first time, it is experimentally shown that the field-ion emission in a microwave field can be transformed into a stable self-sustaining ion emission when the ion current is increased explosively by 2-3 orders of magnitude