• DocumentCode
    1217932
  • Title

    Correlation Between Emission Behavior and Surface Features of Scandate Cathodes

  • Author

    Wang, Yiman ; Wang, Jinshu ; Liu, Wei ; Li, Lili ; Wang, Yanchun ; Zhang, Xizhu

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Mater. Sci. & Eng., Beijing Univ. of Technol., Beijing
  • Volume
    56
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    5/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    776
  • Lastpage
    785
  • Abstract
    Special emission behaviors have been observed historically and recently on scandate cathodes. For a better understanding of the phenomena, we investigated the correlation between emission properties of scandia-doped dispenser cathodes and their surface features. The influence of external electric fields on the semiconductor layer of the cathodes is suggested to be mainly responsible for the special emission characteristics.
  • Keywords
    cathodes; vacuum apparatus; vacuum microelectronics; cathode semiconductor layer; emission behavior; scandate cathodes; scandia-doped dispenser cathodes; surface features; vacuum electron devices; Barium; Cathodes; Current density; Electron devices; Materials science and technology; Powders; Reservoirs; Temperature; Thermionic emission; Tungsten; Scandate cathode; semiconductor model; surface analysis; thermionic emission; vacuum electron device (VED); work function;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9383
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TED.2009.2015619
  • Filename
    4808162