DocumentCode :
3218996
Title :
Past, present and future of Vacuum Electronics
Author :
Gaertner, Georg
Author_Institution :
Philips Research Laboratories, Weisshausstrasse 2, D-52066 Aachen, Germany
fYear :
2010
fDate :
14-16 Oct. 2010
Firstpage :
90
Lastpage :
90
Abstract :
For 150 years Vacuum Electronics (VE) have been the motor of technical innovation in several important application areas. They have enabled a lot of basic inventions and have dominated development and industrial growth in their application areas over more than a century. First a description of the development of vacuum tubes with special emphasis on the electron sources from the early days to the modern state of the art [1,2,3] is given. Changing application scopes from radio transmission, microwave generation, X-ray tubes, display tubes, gas lasers, gas discharge lamps and particle accelerators are addressed. Prospects for the future of standard technology are outlined: e.g. high power vacuum electronics (microwave gyrotrons), space applications of VE (long-lived microwave tubes, ion thrusters), thermionic energy converters, e-beam lithography or vacuum based high resolution characterization.
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Vacuum Electron Sources Conference and Nanocarbon (IVESC), 2010 8th International
Conference_Location :
Nanjing, China
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6645-0
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IVESC.2010.5644338
Filename :
5644338
Link To Document :
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