Investigation into the erosion of explosive-emission liquid-metal cathodes

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 538-542

  Batrakov, Alexander V ^a   Popov, Sergey A ^a   Proskurovsky, Dmitry I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH CURRENT ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Erosion rate; Explosive electron emission; Liquid metal cathodes

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON EMISSION; EROSION; LIQUID METALS;

EXPLOSIVE ELECTRON EMISSION; LIQUID METAL CATHODES;

FIELD EMISSION CATHODES;

EID: 0031211901     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.640662     Document Type: Article

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