Abstract:
The charged-particle beam system includes a non-axisymmetric diode (2) that forms a non-axisymmetric beam (8) having an elliptic cross-section. A focusing element utilizes a magnetic field for focusing and transporting the non-axisymmetric beam (8), wherein the non-axisymmetric beam (8) is approximately matched with the channel of the focusing element.
Abstract:
A method for creating an electron lens (28) includes the steps of applying a polymer layer (12) on an emitter surface (36) of an electron emitter (60) and then curing the polymer layer (12) to reduce volatile content.
Abstract:
An electron gun comprising an electron emission cathode (1), a control electrode (6) and an extractor (7) wherein the electron emission cathode is mode of rare earth hexaboride and a tip of the electron emission cathode is located between the control electrode and the extractor.
Abstract:
An electron emission device for generating and emitting spin-polarized electrons comprising: a first conducting material; a magnetic ultrathin film magnetically coupled to the first conducting material; an electrically insulative and magnetically permeable medium being located between the first conducting material and the magnetic ultrathin film; a second conducting material formed into a structure that emits electrons when impinged by an electric field and electrically coupled to the magnetic ultrathin film; and an anode, electrically coupled to the structure that emits electrons, for generating the electric field that impinges on the structure that emits electrons.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a pulsed electron beam source based on the vacuum diode principle and comprising: a vacuum diode with a multipoint emission cathode; a control grid; a pulse generator; a magnetic compression unit made from field coils; a drift chamber; a target chamber; and a synchronisation unit. The objective of the invention is to design the electron beam source in such a way that pulse durations of 100 microseconds are attainable and the pulse shape can be stepped rather than simply rectangular. This is achieved by embedding the multipoint emission cathode in a free-floating shield grid.
Abstract:
A data storage device including a substrate, a data storage layer on the substrate, and a spin-polarized electron source. The data storage layer comprises a fixed number of atomic layers of a magnetic material which provide the data storage layer with a magnetic anisotropy perpendicular to a surface of the data storage layer. A data magnetic field is created in the data storage layer. The data magnetic field is polarized either in a first direction corresponding to a first data value or in a second direction corresponding to a second data value. Data is stored in the data storage layer by providing a spin-polarized electron having an electron magnetic field with a direction of polarization corresponding to one of the first and the second data values, the electron having a wavelength 'characteristic' of unpaired electrons in the data storage layer which cause the magnetic moment of the material, and directing the spin-polarized electron at the data magnetic field to impart the direction of polarization of the electron magnetic field to the data magnetic field. Data is read from the data storage layer by directing the spin-polarized electron at a second wavelength at the data magnetic field and detecting a deflection or attraction of the spin-polarized electron by the data magnetic field. Alternatively, data is read from the data storage layer by directing the spin-polarized electron at the data magnetic field so that the magnetic medium produces a secondary electron and then detecting certain characteristics of the secondary electron.
Abstract:
An electron gun (1) having a cathode (11) of a lanthanum hexaboride single crystal is disclosed in which the axis of the cathode (11) is set to such a crystal orientation that the electron beam has two intensive emission regions which are asymmetrical with each other in intensity. In the electron gun ,(1), even at a low heating temperature of the cathode (11), a single spot of an image by the electron beam of a more intensive emission region since the electron beam of a weaker intensity emission region is blocked by an aperture (2).