Abstract:
An emitter-dispenser housing for a controlled porosity dispenser cathode manufactured of a single material as a unitary piece by a chemical vapor deposition process in which a configured mandrel is coated with a layer of material such as tungsten, for example, so that when the mandrel is removed from the coating of material a hollow housing is formed having a side wall and an end wall which define a reservoir. In addition, intersecting strips of this same material as the coating, which had been placed in the mandrel, extend transversely across the reservoir with the edges thereof atomically bonded to the coating during the chemical vapor deposition to form a unitary piece. Thereafter an array of apertures is formed in the end wall of the housing by laser drilling to create an emitter-dispenser.
Abstract:
The cathode (4) the material of which is substantially high-melting metal such as W, Mo, Ta, Nb, Re and/or C, consists of a very fine-grained mechanically stable support layer (5), a series of layers (6) considerably enriched with emissive material, in general from the scandium group especially from the group of rare earth metals, preferably with Th or compounds thereof and a thermally stable preferentially oriented coating layer (7). All the layers are provided via the gaseous phase, for example, CVD methods, on a substrate (1) formed according to the desired cathode geometry. The substrate (1) is removed after termination of the deposition. FIG. 2.
Abstract:
This invention concerns a thermoelectronic cathode for hyperfrequency electron tubes.The cathode comprises a cylindrical molybdenum casing, the lower portion of which contains a heating filament, while the upper portion contains two superimposed porous bodies, the lower one made from impregnated material, and the upper one from non-impregnated material.
Abstract:
In an exemplary embodiment, a metal capillary cathode for electric discharge vessels with an emission substance carrier disk porous on its front face and comprised of metal melting at a high temperature is constructed to prevent lateral emission of electrons (interfering emission). To this end, the disclosure provides that the emission substance carrier disk has a nonporous outer casing surface with a higher electron work function than the outer, active surface of the emission substance carrier disk. Such a dispenser cathode is employed as a metal capillary cathode in traveling wave tubes.
Abstract:
The invention relates to metal oxide activated porous tungsten cathodes and methods of their manufacture. A cathode 1 of porous tungsten activated by metal oxides is mounted on a housing 2 which has a heating filament 3. On the outer face of the cathode there is a pattern or grid of pure tungsten (preferably formed by a chemical vapor deposition of WCl.sub.6 or WF.sub.6) of crystalline material the outer face of which has an orientation in the (100) or (110) plane and is parallel to the surface of the cathode. The invention will find particular use in the cathode guns of high frequency tubes such as traveling wave tubes and klystrons.
Abstract:
A reaction thermionic cathode of the diffusion type on the basis of an activated high-temperature support metal doped with a diffusion-promoting additive for the activator substance, provided with a barrier layer inhibiting the self-diffusion of this additive in an undesired direction.
Abstract:
A thermionic electron emitter comprises a tube of wall thickness less than 0.1 mm, a body of thermionic electron emissive material compressed and sintered in the tube, and a ring, coaxial with the tube, within the body to provide constraint against cracking of the body.
Abstract:
An emissive member for a controlled-porosity, dispenser-type cathode comping a three-component sandwich consisting of: (1) a supporting disc; (2) a layer of nonsintered alkaline earth material on said disc; and (3) a thin perforated foil on said layer. The foil is made of refractory metal and has a uniform pattern of tiny holes through which the active material of the reservoir migrates to coat the surface of the foil, the foil thus serving as the electron-emitting surface of the cathode.
Abstract:
For a grid-controlled electron source to operate at extremely high frequencies, as in planar triodes, the control grid must be situated very close to the emissive cathode. Mechanical and thermal distortions have put minimum limits on grid spacings and hence on the maximum operating frequency of grid-controlled tubes. To overcome these limits the grid structure is formed as a network of web members which are part of a laminated sheet having metal layers bonded to opposite surfaces of an insulating layer. One metal layer is affixed to the emissive surface of a metallic matrix cathode and the other metal layer forms the control grid.
Abstract:
A short-arc gas discharge lamp having a discharge vessel provided with a gas filling in which the discharge takes place, and with two electrodes of a high melting point metal facing each other. The end of at least one of the electrodes facing the discharge is conical and has a recess located on the axis of the cone, which recess accommodates a quantity of thorium metal. The recess extends to such a distance from the closed apex of the cone that during operation of the lamp transport of thorium metal to the apex of the cone is mainly effected by means of diffusion through the electrode material.