Abstract:
Cette invention concerne un canon à électrons à émission de champ comportant une pointe d'émission d'électrons, une anode extractrice, ainsi que des moyens permettant de créer une différence de potentiel électrique entre la pointe d'émission et l'anode extractrice. La pointe d'émission comporte une pointe métallique et un cône d'extrémité obtenu par dépôt chimique en phase vapeur sur un nanofilament, le cône étant aligné et soudé sur la pointe métallique. Application à un microscope électronique en transmission.
Abstract:
Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) is exploited to provide improved efficiency for radiant energy conversion. A hot (greater than 200 0C) semiconductor cathode is illuminated such that it emits electrons. Because the cathode is hot, significantly more electrons are emitted than would be emitted from a room temperature (or colder) cathode under the same illumination conditions. As a result of this increased electron emission, the energy conversion efficiency can be significantly increased relative to a conventional photovoltaic device. In PETE, the cathode electrons can be (and typically are) thermalized with respect to the cathode. As a result, PETE does not rely on emission of non-thermalized electrons, and is significantly easier to implement than hot-carrier emission approaches.
Abstract:
An ion source for use in a mass spectrometer includes an electron emitter assembly (30) configured to emit electron beams, wherein the electron emitter assembly comprises carbon nanotube bundles fixed to a substrate for emitting the electron beams, a first control grid configured to control emission of the electron beams, and a second control grid configured to control energies of the electron beams; an ionization chamber (34) having an electron-beam inlet (38) to allow the electron beams to enter the ionization chamber, a sample inlet for sample introduction, and an ion-beam outlet (29) to provide an exit for ionized sample molecules; an electron lens (31) disposed between the electron emitter assembly and the ionization chamber to focus the electron beams; and at least one electrode (37) disposed proximate the ion-beam outlet to focus the ionized sample molecules exiting the ionization chamber.
Abstract:
The electron source comprises a uniform microscopically flat carbon nanotube film parallel to which and close to which are one or several perforated thin conducting plates, which are electrically insulated from the microscopically flat carbon nanotube film. An electric field at the microscopically flat carbon nanotube film, provided by a voltage applied to the microscopically flat carbon nanotube film and to the conducting plates causes electron emission from the microscopically flat carbon nanotube film by the field emission effect resulting in an electron beam which passes through the perforations in the conducting plates. The electron beam intensity is determined by the electric field at the carbon nanotube film which can be regulated with the voltages applied to perforated thin conducting plates.
Abstract:
본 발명은 전도성 나노구조물 및 이의 성형 방법 및 이를 이용하는 전계 방출 에미터의 제조 방법에 관한 것으로 보다 상세하게는 전도성 기판; 상기 전도성 기판 상에 배열되는 전도성 나노구조물; 및 상기 전도성 기판 및 상기 전도성 나노구조물 사이의 계면에 배치되는 전도성 계면 화합물을 포함하는 전계 방출 나노구조물 및 이의 성형 방법 및 이를 이용하는 전계 방출 에미터의 제조 방법을 제공한다.
Abstract:
Suspended nanotubes are used to capture and ionize neutral chemical units, such as individual atoms, molecules, and condensates, with excellent efficiency and sensitivity. Applying a voltage to the nanotube(s) (with respect to a grounding surface) creates an attractive potential between a polarizable neutral chemical unit and the nanotube that varies as 1/r2, where r is the unit's distance from the nanotube. An atom approaching the nanotube with a sub-threshold angular momentum is captured by the potential and eventually spirals towards the nanotube. The atom ionizes as in comes into close proximity with a sidewall of the nanotube, creating an ion whose polarity matches the polarity of the electric potential of the nanotube. Repulsive forces eject the ion, which can be detected more easily than a neutral chemical unit. Suspended nanotubes can be used to detect small numbers of neutral chemical units (e.g., single atoms) for applications in sensing and interferometry.
Abstract:
The invention relates in general terms to the field of "cold cathode" electronic cathodes including an electrically conductive flat substrate (2) and an emitter comprising a tip (1) with a micrometric or nanometric diameter arranged vertically above the surface of the substrate. The cathode according to the invention comprises a single annular electrode (6) electrically insulated from the substrate by an insulating layer (3) and centred on the emitter, the source comprising a means for applying a potential difference of several dozen volts between the substrate and the annular electrode, enough to cause the emission of an electronic beam from the tip of the emitter, the annular electrode being large enough to focus said electronic beam. A source of an electronic beam can comprise a plurality of identical cathodes arranged in a specific pattern.
Abstract:
Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) is exploited to provide improved efficiency for radiant energy conversion. A hot (greater than 200 0C) semiconductor cathode is illuminated such that it emits electrons. Because the cathode is hot, significantly more electrons are emitted than would be emitted from a room temperature (or colder) cathode under the same illumination conditions. As a result of this increased electron emission, the energy conversion efficiency can be significantly increased relative to a conventional photovoltaic device. In PETE, the cathode electrons can be (and typically are) thermalized with respect to the cathode. As a result, PETE does not rely on emission of non-thermalized electrons, and is significantly easier to implement than hot-carrier emission approaches.
Abstract:
Field emission based ionization sources are provided, with the emitter (305) being a carbon nanotube field emitter. Such emitters can replace Ni-63 beta emitters. Ionization of a gas (308) that is flowed through the gap (310) between the emitter plates (301, 302) is performed by electron capture of the flow of electrons by the molecules in the gas (308).