Abstract:
In an auxiliary-voltage DC source for supplying an electric circuit and, more particularly, one at a high potential in an electron gun without an isolation transformer, the primary winding of a current transformer is located in an alternating-current section of the electric circuit. The current transformer has at least one secondary winding which is connected through a rectifier to a parallel regulator for providing the auxiliary-voltage.
Abstract:
A tungsten double coil covered with cathode material made from a paste of carbonate mixed with organic solvent. The coil is mounted around a molybdenum cylinder having a cavity in which a heater is installed.
Abstract:
An areal array of tubular electron sources is disclosed for producing multiple directed electron beams. Sources (10) are located in a parallel array between a conductive back plate (12) at a closed end of the tubes and a conductive face plate (14) having holes therein aligned with the second open end of each of the electrode tubes (10). An electrical current source (30) is connected between the back plate (12) and face plate (14) to resistively heat each of the sources (10) to a temperature high enough for thermionic electron emission. Electron beams (34) are produced from within each of the tubular electrodes (10). Extraction means which may include a magnetic field from a coil (29) and an extraction lens (18) tends to withdraw the electrons from within the sources (10) in an intense, collimated beam (34). Beams (34) are accelerated toward a target (28) through a beam deflection unit (22) having holes (24) associated with each of the electron beams (34 ). Beam deflection plates (26) within each of the holes (24) deflect the electron beams (34) to impact selected points on a target (28).
Abstract:
Discharge apparatus comprises a vacuum envelope which is evacuated by a pamping apparatus. In the envelope, an anode and a hollow cathode are disposed and are connected to an arc power supply. A disk having an orfice covers one end of the hollow cathode. A low pressure gas is supplied from a gas source to the envelope through the hollow cathode and the orifice, the gas pressure in the hollow cathode being maintained higher than that in the envelope. The hollow cathode and the disk are made of an electrically conductive material and are connected to an ignition power supply. Before effecting discharging between the anode and the hollow cathode, the ignition power supply causes an ignition between the disk and the inner surface of the hollow cathode.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of forming a thin stratified pinhole-free silicon dioxide insulator layer between multilevel conductors. Silicon dioxide films within the stratified pinhole-free silicon dioxide insulator layer are made from single drops of colloidal silicon dioxide liquid dispersion. These silicon dioxide films are stacked to form a stratified pinhole-free highly insulative silicon dioxide layer between the upper and lower conductors. The thinness of the stratified pinhole-free silicon dioxide insulator layer allows shallow contact windows to be formed therein. A shallow contact window allows reliable electrical contact therethrough between an upper conductor and a lower conductor.