Effects of pulse-length and emitter area on virtual cathode formation in electron guns

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2377-2382

  Valfells, Ágúst ^a,b   Feldman, D W ^a,b   Virgo, M ^a,b   O'Shea, P G ^a,b   Lau, Y Y ^a,b  

^a The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT PULSE; DISPENSER CATHODES; EMITTER AREA; LIMITING CURRENT; LIMITING CURRENT DENSITY; PULSE LENGTH; SHORT PULSE; THEORETICAL SCALING LAW; TRANSIT TIME; UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND; UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ELECTRON RINGS; VIRTUAL CATHODES;

CATHODES; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRON GUNS; EXPERIMENTS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 0141913575     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1463065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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