Degradation and recovery of the emission from a graphite cathode in relation to the repetition frequency of nanosecond accelerating pulses

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 34, Issue 5 I, 2006, Pages 1771-1776

  Korovin, Sergei D ^a   Litvinov, Evgeny A ^b   Mesyats, Gennady A ^c   Rostov, Vladislav V ^a   Rukin, Sergei N ^b   Shpak, Valery G ^b   Yalandin, Michael I ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH CURRENT ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTROPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Electron beam; Emission center; Explosive electron emission (EEE); Micrographs; Polishing effect

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; COOLING; DEGRADATION; GRAPHITE; HEAT CONDUCTION;

EXPLOSIVE ELECTRON EMISSION; POLISHING EFFECT; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

EID: 33750388377     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.883374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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