Effects of pulse-length and emitter area on virtual cathode formation in electron guns
dc.contributor.author | Valfells, Ágúst | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Feldman, D. W. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Virgo, M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | O’shea, P. G. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Lau, Y. Y. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-05-06T20:47:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-05-06T20:47:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2002-05 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Valfells, Ágúst; Feldman, D. W.; Virgo, M.; O’Shea, P. G.; Lau, Y. Y. (2002). "Effects of pulse-length and emitter area on virtual cathode formation in electron guns." Physics of Plasmas 9(5): 2377-2382. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/69560> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/69560 | |
dc.description.abstract | Recent experiments at the University of Maryland using photoemission from a dispenser cathode have yielded some interesting results regarding the effects of the area of emission and of the ratio between the pulse length and the gap transit time on the amount of current that may be drawn from an electron gun before a virtual cathode forms. The experiments show that a much higher current density may be drawn from a short pulse or limited emitter area than is anticipated by the Child–Langmuir limiting current. There is also evidence that the current may be increased even after virtual cathode formation, which leads a distinction between a limiting current density and a current density critical for virtual cathode formation. The experiments have also yielded some interesting results on the longitudinal structure of the current pulse passed through the anode. Some empirical and theoretical scaling laws regarding the formation of virtual cathodes in an electron gun will be presented. This work was motivated by the needs of the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) [P. G. O’Shea, M. Reiser, R. A. Kishek et al., Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 464, 646 (2001)] where the goal is to generate pulses that are well-localized in time and space. © 2002 American Institute of Physics. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | The American Institute of Physics | en_US |
dc.rights | © The American Institute of Physics | en_US |
dc.title | Effects of pulse-length and emitter area on virtual cathode formation in electron guns | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2104 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-3511 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/69560/2/PHPAEN-9-5-2377-1.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1063/1.1463065 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Physics of Plasmas | en_US |
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