Ab initio investigation of the surface properties of dispenser B-type and scandate thermionic emission cathodes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Vlahos, Vasilios ^a   Lee, Yueh Lin ^a   Booske, John H ^b   Morgan, Dane ^b   Turek, Ladislav ^c   Kirshner, Mark ^c   Kowalczyk, Richard ^c   Wilsen, Craig ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO INVESTIGATIONS; AB INITIO MODELING; EMISSION MECHANISMS; LOW WORK FUNCTIONS; MULTI COMPONENTS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM STEADY STATE; SCANDATE; SCANDATE CATHODES; SURFACE COATINGS; THERMIONIC ELECTRON EMISSIONS; THERMODYNAMICALLY STABLES;

BARIUM; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TUBES; SCANDIUM; SURFACE STRUCTURE; THERMIONIC CATHODES; THERMIONIC EMISSION; TRACE ANALYSIS; WORK FUNCTION;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 65549157002     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3129193     Document Type: Article

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