Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a dispenser cathode having a porous tungsten body, in which a metal oxide is provided in the body and the body is impregnated with barium. Good results as regards life and resistance to ion bombardment are obtained if the comparatively cheap oxides of gallium and indium are used.
Abstract:
An emitter-dispenser housing for a controlled porosity dispenser cathode manufactured of a single material as a unitary piece by a chemical vapor deposition process in which a configured mandrel is coated with a layer of material such as tungsten, for example, so that when the mandrel is removed from the coating of material a hollow housing is formed having a side wall and an end wall which define a reservoir. In addition, intersecting strips of this same material as the coating, which had been placed in the mandrel, extend transversely across the reservoir with the edges thereof atomically bonded to the coating during the chemical vapor deposition to form a unitary piece. Thereafter an array of apertures is formed in the end wall of the housing by laser drilling to create an emitter-dispenser.
Abstract:
This invention concerns a thermoelectronic cathode for hyperfrequency electron tubes.The cathode comprises a cylindrical molybdenum casing, the lower portion of which contains a heating filament, while the upper portion contains two superimposed porous bodies, the lower one made from impregnated material, and the upper one from non-impregnated material.
Abstract:
In an exemplary embodiment, a metal capillary cathode for electric discharge vessels with an emission substance carrier disk porous on its front face and comprised of metal melting at a high temperature is constructed to prevent lateral emission of electrons (interfering emission). To this end, the disclosure provides that the emission substance carrier disk has a nonporous outer casing surface with a higher electron work function than the outer, active surface of the emission substance carrier disk. Such a dispenser cathode is employed as a metal capillary cathode in traveling wave tubes.
Abstract:
The invention relates to metal oxide activated porous tungsten cathodes and methods of their manufacture. A cathode 1 of porous tungsten activated by metal oxides is mounted on a housing 2 which has a heating filament 3. On the outer face of the cathode there is a pattern or grid of pure tungsten (preferably formed by a chemical vapor deposition of WCl.sub.6 or WF.sub.6) of crystalline material the outer face of which has an orientation in the (100) or (110) plane and is parallel to the surface of the cathode. The invention will find particular use in the cathode guns of high frequency tubes such as traveling wave tubes and klystrons.
Abstract:
A reaction thermionic cathode of the diffusion type on the basis of an activated high-temperature support metal doped with a diffusion-promoting additive for the activator substance, provided with a barrier layer inhibiting the self-diffusion of this additive in an undesired direction.
Abstract:
A thermionic electron emitter comprises a tube of wall thickness less than 0.1 mm, a body of thermionic electron emissive material compressed and sintered in the tube, and a ring, coaxial with the tube, within the body to provide constraint against cracking of the body.
Abstract:
An emissive member for a controlled-porosity, dispenser-type cathode comping a three-component sandwich consisting of: (1) a supporting disc; (2) a layer of nonsintered alkaline earth material on said disc; and (3) a thin perforated foil on said layer. The foil is made of refractory metal and has a uniform pattern of tiny holes through which the active material of the reservoir migrates to coat the surface of the foil, the foil thus serving as the electron-emitting surface of the cathode.
Abstract:
A quick-heating planar cathode employs a disk of fine mesh wire of refractory metal around which is bonded or sintered a porous layer of tungsten particles impregnated with electron-emissive material, a layer of inorganic insulation covering one surface of the porous cathode, and a heater on the insulating surface.
Abstract:
A unitary heater, cathode, and control electrode structure for an electron discharge device is formed by coating a disk of a porous refractory metal with an inorganic insulating layer, overcoating the insulating layer with a film of refractory metal, forming a grid pattern in the film on one side of the disk, forming openings in the film and insulating layer corresponding to the pattern, and impregnating the disk with thermionic emissive material.