A comparison of flicker noise and shot noise on cathode hot

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 794-797

  Lau, Y Y ^a   Jensen, Kevin L ^a   Levush, Baruch ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cathode noise, emission noise, flicker noise

Indexed keywords

CATHODE NOISE; CROSSOVER FREQUENCY; FLICKER NOISE; L HOSPITALS RULE;

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; INTEGRATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; SHOT NOISE; TEMPERATURE;

CATHODES;

EID: 0034197668     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.887726     Document Type: Article

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