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Accession Number:
AD0770608
Title:
Soviet Development of Needle-Tip Field-Emission Cathodes for High- Current Electron Beams
Descriptive Note:
Corporate Author:
RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
Report Date:
1973-08-01
Pagination or Media Count:
24.0
Abstract:
The paper summarizes recent Soviet theoretical and experimental work on cathodes for very high-current charged particle beams. Field emission from needle-tip cathodes is based on explosive emission from the tips, accompanied by explosion-derived plasma setting up intense local electric fields. A cathode fabrication method is described that gives stable operation through 10,000 to 100,000 pulses of about 3 nanoseconds each, for currents of 500 to 1000 A. A liquid cathode produces stable current pulses within 6 percent of 2000 A. In a large needle array, 80 percent to 100 percent of the tips maintained current value dispersion within 20 percent. Operational cathodes of the controllable tip-and-dielectric type have been developed for 500 keV and 50 kA, and of the multiple-tip types for 1 MeV and 50 kA.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE