Correlation between emission behavior and surface features of scandate cathodes

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 776-785

  Wang, Yiman ^a   Wang, Jinshu ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Li, Lili ^a   Wang, Yanchun ^a   Zhang, Xizhu ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Scandate cathode; Semiconductor model; Surface analysis; Thermionic emission; Vacuum electron device (VED); Work function

Indexed keywords

DISPENSER CATHODES; EMISSION BEHAVIOR; EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; EMISSION PROPERTIES; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; SCANDATE CATHODE; SCANDATE CATHODES; SEMICONDUCTOR LAYERS; SEMICONDUCTOR MODEL; SURFACE FEATURE; VACUUM ELECTRON DEVICE (VED);

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON DEVICES; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; THERMIONIC EMISSION; VACUUM; WORK FUNCTION;

SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349084202     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2009.2015619     Document Type: Article

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