Abstract:
A crossed-field amplifier has a cathode in the form of a P-N junction semiconductor which is biased to the conductive state to cause the crossed-field amplifier to amplify. The P and N regions of the semiconductor are connected to an energy source which is pulsed to produce conduction in the P-N junction and thereby allow secondary emission from the cathode. A reverse bias voltage prevents secondary emission from the cathode. The tube requires only low voltages to be applied to the cathode P-N junction to completely deactivate the crossed-field amplifier tube without requiring the removal of the RF drive pulse applied to the cathode- or anode-slow-wave circuit and without requiring the removal of the DC high voltage power supply which therefore need not be pulsed.
Abstract:
A magnetron comprises a ceramic stem having a cathode support structure. Sealing metal plates are sealed hermetically to the cathode side of the ceramic stem, closing off hermetically the holes running through the stem for the outer connecting leads. The outer connecting leads are connected electrically to the sealing metal plates. The cathode, which is disposed in the center of the anode, is supported by a pair of cathode support rods. The cathode support rods are fixed to the sealing metal plates. In another embodiment, the end-face of the ceramic stem is formed such that the part of the surface of the stem to which the cylindrical metal container, which constitutes part of the envelope of the stem, is sealed by brazing, and those parts of the surface to which the sealing metal plates are sealed by brazing, are positioned substantially on the same plane.
Abstract:
An improvement to an existing crossed-field amplifier is shown which includes the replacement of an existing thermionic emitter with a larger platinum emitter. The platinum emitter is cooled from a surface opposite to the surface upon which a high voltage is applied to permit the form of the existing crossed-field amplifier to be maintained.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a cathode for magnetron comprises a cathode sleeve formed as a hollow cylinder, a heater inside the sleeve, two end shields formed around the sleeve at a prescribed interval and an electron emitting material applied around the sleeve between both end-shields, wherein a plurality of isolated projections are almost regularly and intergraly formed around the sleeve between the end-shields, and the above electron emitting material is applied onto the cathode sleeve to fill gaps among the plural projections.According to the method of manufacturing a cathode of the present invention, the efficiency of electron emission and electric conductivity are not lowered, whereby the stable operation can be realized for a long term.
Abstract:
A cathode structure of a thermal electron emitting cathode of an electron tube, particularly of a magnetron for preventing the damage and break due to mechanical vibration of the cathode. A spacer is interposed in a space between a center lead and a lower end shield to prevent the vibration through the center lead. The antivibration effect of the filament cathode is attained by arranging the spacer having an aperture through which the center lead and a side lead extend such that the spacer contacts to an inner wall of a shielding member which constitutes a portion of a vacuum envelope of the magnetron.
Abstract:
A direct heating thermionic emission cathode for high frequency tubes of the diode, tetrode or pentode type. It comprises a pyrolytic graphite support and a lanthanum hexaboride-based thermoemissive material, these elements being separated by a layer which constitutes a diffusion barrier and comprises a tantalum or hafnium carbide, a metal of the platinum group or a boron compound.
Abstract:
1. A magnetron discharge device for noise generation comprising an elongated cathode and a plurality of anode segments surrounding said cathode to define a cylindrical space charge chamber, said cathode comprising a helix having a diameter equal to at least half the space charge chamber diameter and having a spacing between adjacent turns equal to at least half the helix diameter.
Abstract:
A tungsten dispenser cathode for a magnetron is described. The cathode is provided with end shields in the form of solid graphite rings to improve suppression of undesirable electron emission.