Abstract:
A field-emission electron gun wherein, during the state under which an electric field is formed between the cathode and the first anode to thus emit electrons, a heating current is supplied to a filament mounted on the cathode, to steadily heat the cathode so as to hold it at a certain fixed temperature within a range of from 100*C. to 500*C.
Abstract:
An electron gun structure having a main focusing lens including a unipotential electron lens and a bipotential electron lens, the unipotential and bipotential electron lenses serving as a single main electron lens having a larger effective aperture thereby greatly reducing aberration.
Abstract:
A gridded convergent flow electron gun employs a dimpled oxide coated thermionic cathode emitter facing a centrally apertured accelerating anode. A multiapertured control grid is interposed in the space between the dimpled oxide coated cathode and the anode for pulsing the electron beam. A multiapertured shadow grid is disposed overlaying the emitting surface of the cathode emitter with the apertures of the shadow grid being in alignment and in registration with the respective dimpled areas of the emitter and the corresponding apertures in the control grid for projecting a multiplicity of non-intercepting convergent flow beamlets through the individual holes in the control grid. The shadow grid is placed in nominal contact with the cathode emitter and is made of a material having essentially the same coefficient of thermal expansion as the cathode. In a preferred embodiment, the cathode includes a nickel base member and the shadow grid is made of nickel.
Abstract:
A vacuum tube for producing a wide high-uniformity beam of fast accelerated electrons. The tube comprises an evacuated enclosure provided with an electron transparent window and containing an elongated cathode, accelerator electrodes and a control electrode formed by sleeves electrically insulated from one another and brought to separately adjustable potentials.
Abstract:
An electron beam generator in which an annular sheath of electrons is produced by an annular cathode and anode arrangement and injected in a converging manner to a focal point with a portion of the beam current returned to the center of the converging beam and through the center of the cathode annulus. Another portion of the beam current is fed back around the exterior of the converging beam.
Abstract:
A system wherein spherical aberration is reduced in an electronoptic device having post deflection acceleration by connecting the focusing electrode of an ''''einzel'''' type electrostatic electron lens to a unitary source of potentials at a potential more positive than the potential connected to the electrodes disposed on either side of the focusing electrode. In every case, the same supply above mentioned provides all the potentials necessary to operate the device.
Abstract:
An electrically powered actuator for providing a rotational or large linear motion, which is simple and highly reliable, including a bi-metallic strip with a slot extending along its length from one end to a position near the opposite end. In a rotational actuator, the strip is bent into a spiral, with the inner turn fixed to the shaft which is to be rotated and the outer turn fixed to a support and connected to electrical leads. Current passed through the leads and through the slotted strip heats it to make it uncoil or to make it coil further, the several rotations of the strip resulting in a large rotation of the shaft.
Abstract:
In a cathode ray tube, for example, a color picture tube in which a plurality of electron beams are made to converge or cross each other substantially at the optical center of an electrostatic focusing lens by which the beams are focused on the electron-receiving screen of the tube; the focusing lens includes first and second axially spaced, annular electrodes extending around the tube axis and being at the same potential, and a third annular electrode assembly extending between the first and second electrodes and which includes an axial array of at least three annular electrode portions, the electrode portions at the ends of the axial array being at a different potential than the first and second electrodes to establish the focusing electric field and at least one of the electrode portions intermediate the end portions being at a potential that deviates from the potential of the end electrode portions in a direction toward the potential of the first and second electrodes to modify the electric field so that its equivalent optical lens has relatively flatter surfaces for further reducing aberrations of the beam or beams focused thereby.
Abstract:
An electron gun comprises a photoemissive source, which is excited by a source of light such as a pulsed laser. This electron emission is amplified by a secondary emission multiplication system comprising a plurality of AC or DC biased dynodes. In the former case the gun envelope forms a resonator cavity.
Abstract:
To increase selectively the electron emission from a cathode, a control grid is placed above the cathode and osmium or iridium is evaporated through the openings of the grid onto the cathode. On the resulting cathode the coated regions provide a value of work function which is lower than that of the uncoated regions.