Development of a carbon nanotube based microfocus x-ray tube with single focusing electrode

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Liu, Zejian ^a   Zhang, Jian ^b   Yang, Guang ^a   Cheng, Yuan ^c   Zhou, Otto ^d   Lu, Jianping ^d  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Xintek Inc   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON OPTICS SIMULATIONS; MICROFOCUS X-RAY TUBES; OPERATING STABILITY; SINGLE FOCUSING ELECTRODE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; ELECTROSTATICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; X RAY TUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33744824656     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2198793     Document Type: Article

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