Abstract:
A field-emission type switching device includes a substrate formed with a recess having a straight edge and serrated edge opposite to the straight edge. A gate electrode is formed at the bottom of the recess. An emitter electrode is provided over the substrate and formed with a serrated edge which is slightly off alignment with the serrate edge of the recess so as to provide an emitter overhanging portion overhanging the recess. Similarly, a collector electrode is provided over the substrate and formed with a straight edge which is slightly off alignment with the straight edge of the recess so as to provide a collector overhanging portion overhanging the recess. The emitter and collector electrodes are disposed in one plane and the gate electrode is disposed in another plane below the one plane.
Abstract:
A low consumption electron gun is provided for cathode ray tubes. The heating filament of the cathode includes a resistant wire and lugs for connection to an electric energy supply. The resistant wire is wound spirally. The active part of the heating filament is formed of at most two turns, each of which is formed by a multiplicity of elementary turns; the connecting lugs have a core made from a low electric resistance metal which short circuits the elementary turns of the resistant wire.
Abstract:
The shape of an electron beam emitted from an LaB.sub.6 single crystal cathode can be controlled directly by shaping the cathode tip itself. The LaB.sub.6 cathode is provided with a flat top surface which is substantially perpendicular to the emitted beam direction and which corresponds in shape to the shape of the beam desired. For a square beam the flat top surface is square in shape. The size of the shaped top surface and operating conditions are arranged such that emission of electrons occurs over substantially the entire shaped top surface with minimum emission from side regions of the tip adjacent to this shaped surface. In order to maximize emission from the shaped top surface, a crystallographic orientation is selected such that the shaped top surface exposes a relatively low work function crystal plane. Emission from side regions of the tip adjacent to the shaped high emission surface may be reduced by orienting such side regions very obliquely to the emitted beam axis. The side regions may also be flat surfaces, in which case emission from these flat side surfaces may be reduced by orienting the flat side surfaces such that they expose relatively high work function crystal plane.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an electron-beam cathode which emits electrons with a low work function over a relatively wide range of temperature and pressure. The cathode is comprised of single crystal tungsten having zirconium and oxygen dopant atoms within the bulk thereof. This cathode is formed by the steps of attaching zirconium to a portion of the surface of single crystal tungsten, and heating the tungsten with the zirconium attached thereto in an atmosphere of oxygen to diffuse the zirconium and the oxygen into the bulk of the tungsten.
Abstract:
A field emission cathode comprising a cathode base composed of carbon or a high-melting-point metal and a needle-shaped cathode composed of glassy carbon, which can provide a high field emission stably even under a high vacuum pressure, and a method for the preparation of this field emission cathode.
Abstract:
An electric incandescent lamp having a rotational axis, includes a filament formed with a coil disposed in bowed form across the axis of the lamp, the length CL of the coil, measured along the mean curvature ML of the coil, being 3.6 to 6.2 times greater than the outside diameter OD of the coil and the height H of the coil, measured in the direction of the axis of the lamp, being 1.2 to 2.5 times greater than the outside diameter of the coil, and the distance A between each of the windings of the filament of the coil, measured along the mean curvature ML of the coil, being 0.3 to 1.2 times as great as the diameter WD of the filament of the coil.
Abstract:
An electrochemically generated field desorption emitter for use in mass spectrometry, and a process for forming such an emitter by immersing a metal support, as a first electrode, and a second electrode in an electrolytic liquid mixture having appropriate concentration of a metal compound, and applying a plurality of short duration, electrical pulses between the electrodes. The emitter so formed comprises an elongated metal support having a plurality of metal dendrites extending in a generally radially outwardly direction therefrom.
Abstract:
A storage system for the mass recording and readout of digital data with ultra high resolution. An electron beam structure is provided for forming a beam of extremely small focused spot diameter, on the order of 0.1 microns, and high current density capability, on the order of 1,000 amperes per sq. cm., which records data by scanning over defined areas of the storage medium surface and micromachining elemental portions of said medium as a function of beam modulation. Readout may be subsequently accomplished by similarly scanning the beam at reduced power density and detecting electrons that have been transmitted by or reflected from the storage medium.