Abstract:
A thermionic cathode comprising a thermionic emissive material consisting essentially of a metal boride, a support consisting essentially of a refractory metal which is reactive with the metal boride and a brazing material bonding the metal boride to the support and acting as a barrier to prevent reaction therebetween.
Abstract:
A cathode device including an emitter element for generating electrons. The emitter element can have an outer periphery and a distal tip. The tip can have a first angled surface that angles inwardly from the outer periphery, and a second angled surface that angles inwardly and is separated and inwardly offset from the first angled surface by a shoulder. A graphite cap which can be solid, extends around the emitter element and has an internal angled surface that engages the first angled surface of the tip of the emitter element, forming a gap of a controlled size separating the internal angled surface of the graphite cap from the second angled surface of the tip of the emitter element.
Abstract:
An electron source capable of suppressing consumption of an electron emission material is provide. The present invention provides an electron source including: an electron emission material; and, an electron emission-suppressing material covering a side surface of the electron emission material, wherein a work function of the electron emission-suppressing material is higher than that of the electron emission material, and a thermal emissivity of the electron emission-suppressing material is lower than that of the electron emission material.
Abstract:
An improved thermionic cathode is provided. The cathode has a carbon-coated cone surface and reduced cone angle (e.g. typically 60 degrees or less) that delivers an electron beam with high angular intensity and brightness and exhibits increased longevity.
Abstract:
Electron emission materials consisting of carbides, borides, and oxides, and related mixtures and compounds, of Group IVB metals Hf, Zr, and Ti, Group IIA metals Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba, and Group IIIB metals Sc, Y, and lanthanides La through Lu are used in electrodes. The electron emission materials include ternary Group IVB-IIIB and IVB-IIA oxides. These electron emission materials are typically contained in a refractory metal matrix formed of tungsten, tantalum, rhenium, and their alloys, but may also be used by themselves. These materials and electrodes have high melting points, low vapor pressures, low work functions, high electrical and thermal conductivity, and high thermionic electron emission and field emission properties.
Abstract:
A rare earth hexaboride electron-emitting material of the formula ReB.sub.6+x, wherein Re is La, Ce or (La+Ce), and 0.05.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.20.
Abstract:
A rare earth hexaboride electron-emitting material of the formula ReB.sub.6+x, wherein Re is La, Ce or (La+Ce) and 0.05.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.20.
Abstract:
An electron emissive material of the formula (Y.sub.1.sub.-x EU.sub.x)B.sub.6 having the calcium hexaboride type crystal structure can easily produce hexaborides of the single phase. These borides have a number of merits such as small work function, high mechanical properties and low vapor pressure, and they are far more excellent than prior-art materials when used in a thermionic emission cathode and a field emission type cold cathode.