The field emission in the alternative electric fields
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Electrochemical Etching and Characterization of Sharp Field Emission Points for Electron Impact Ionization
Published on: July 12, 2016
1A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Polytechnitscheskaya str 26, St. Petersburg 194021, Russia. e.popov@mail.ioffe.ru
Abstract:
We obtained a growth of the emitting points and a considerable increase in the emission current in the regime of alternative power supply for initially polished flat metal surfaces. Formed surfaces demonstrate sufficient field emission current stability in vacuum from 10(-4) to 10(-6)Torr and good tolerance and maintainability of field emission characteristics after series of explosive emission pulses. In an alternative power supply regime, using a grid as one of the electrodes enabled us to output the field emission electron current about 2 mA after accelerating grid.
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