Emission nonuniformity due to profilimetry variation in thermionic cathodes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Jensen, Kevin L ^a   Lau, Y Y ^a,b   Jordan, Nicholas ^a,b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR VARIATION; EMISSION NONUNIFORMITY; LARGE SCALE PROFILIMETRY; PROFILIMETRY VARIATION;

CURRENT DENSITY; GYROTRONS; MACHINING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROFILOMETRY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

THERMIONIC CATHODES;

EID: 33646167912     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2197605     Document Type: Article

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