Abstract:
The present invention describes an ion gun which is capable of producing relatively high density ion currents. The ion gun employs at least one capillary duct the surface of which is semiconducting and has secondary electron emission coefficient greater than one to generate ions from a source of an ionizable material and to accelerate the ions so generated.
Abstract:
The specification describes a vacuum device utilizing the multipacting phenomenon in a special insulated-electrode microwave comb-line structure and functioning as a high speed, single pole, single throw, RF switch with the exception that in the off condition, power is absorbed in the device.
Abstract:
An electron discharge tube comprises a photocathode, a dynode, a mesh having openings of non-uniform sizes on the dynode, and an anode, all in an evacuated tube. The mesh comprises a plurality of spaced first elongated elements of electrically conducting material and a plurality of spaced second elongated elements of electrically conducting material, intersecting to form openings of non-uniform sizes.
Abstract:
A device for maintaining constant the amplification of a photoelectric transducer device includes a beta light which supplies uniform light to the inlet of the transducer device, a circuit comparing the direct voltage outgoing signal of the transducer device produced by the beta light with a rated value signal embodying the rated value of the amplification and means varying the amplification so as to balance the direct voltage outgoing signal with the rated value signal.
Abstract:
A multipactor receiver protection stage is provided with a soft beta emitter, such as a tritium doped material, for decreasing the turn-on time of the stage by providing free electrons in the gap between the secondary emission surfaces of the multipactor for acceleration by electromagnetic wave energy within the multipactor cavity.