Abstract:
Electron beam generator comprising an electron emitting device adapted to emit an electron beam when heated to an elevated temperature, wherein the electron emitting device comprises a filament having a spiral portion.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a control grid for an electron beam generating device, wherein the control grid comprises apertures arranged in rows in a width direction and columns in a height direction, wherein a majority of the apertures in a row have the same size, and wherein the size of the apertures of at least one row differs from the size of the apertures of another row.
Abstract:
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) assembly includes at least one emission source; a top wafer having a plurality of side walls and a generally horizontal portion, the horizontal portion having a thickness between a first side and a directly opposed second side, at least one window in the horizontal portion extending between the first and second sides and a transmission membrane across the at least one window; and a bottom wafer having a first portion with a first substantially planar surface, an intermediate surface directly opposed to the first substantially planar surface, a second portion with a second substantially planar surface, the at least one emission source provided on the second substantially planar surface; where the top wafer bonds to the bottom wafer at the intermediate surface and encloses a cavity within the top wafer and the bottom wafer.
Abstract:
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) assembly includes at least one emission source; a top wafer having a plurality of side walls and a generally horizontal portion, the horizontal portion having a thickness between a first side and a directly opposed second side, at least one window in the horizontal portion extending between the first and second sides and a transmission membrane across the at least one window; and a bottom wafer having a first portion with a first substantially planar surface, an intermediate surface directly opposed to the first substantially planar surface, a second portion with a second substantially planar surface, the at least one emission source provided on the second substantially planar surface; where the top wafer bonds to the bottom wafer at the intermediate surface and encloses a cavity within the top wafer and the bottom wafer.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method of decontaminating surfaces on a living creature. A beam of electrons is generated with an electron beam generator operating in the range of about 40 kv to 60 kv. The beam of electrons exit the electron beam generator through an exit window. The surfaces on the living creature are irradiated with the beam of electrons. The beam of electrons are of an energy sufficient to decontaminate the surfaces without damaging living tissue.
Abstract:
In a process for the irradiation of strand-shaped irradiated material (19; 19a-e), in particular cable insulation or sheathing (31) capable of being cross-linked by irradiation, or tubes, hoses, or profile elements capable of being cross-linked by irradiation, with electron beams impinging transversely to the longitudinal axis of the irradiated material (19; 19a-e), which strike the irradiated material (19; 19a-e) from two fixed irradiation directions (R1, R2), located at an angle to one another which is other than zero and for preference is a right angle, a uniform irradiation is achieved in a simple manner in that a scanned electron beam (17) is created from an electron beam (11) in a scanner (12) by means of a scan device (13), which by means of a temporally-actuated back-and-forth slewing movement in a prescribed angle range creates a radiation fan transversely to the longitudinal direction of the irradiated material, and that the scanned electron beam (17) is deflected by a deflection magnet (16, 16′) arranged between the scan device (13) and the irradiated material (19; 19a-e) in such a way for each scan angle of the irradiation field that it impinges on the irradiation material (19; 19a-e) to be treated from one of the two fixed irradiation directions (R1, R2).
Abstract:
An electron accelerator includes a vacuum chamber having an electron beam exit window. An electron generator is positioned within the vacuum chamber for generating electrons. A housing surrounds the electron generator and has a first series of openings formed in the housing between the electron generator and the exit window for allowing electrons to accelerate from the electron generator out the exit window in an electron beam when a voltage potential is applied between the housing and the exit window. The housing also has a second series and third series of openings formed in the housing on opposite sides of the electron generator for causing electrons to be uniformly distributed across the electron beam by flattening electrical field lines between the electron generator and the exit window.
Abstract:
The device shields from X-radiation produced by electron bombardment of printed inks on a paper sheet in an apparatus including a press device, an electron bombardment device following the press device and a conveying device conveying the paper sheet from the press device through the electron bombardment device to the conveying device. To prevent smearing and double images on the paper sheet the device includes an upstream shielding duct device extending between the press device and the electron bombardment device through which the paper sheet is conveyed; a downstream shielding duct device extending between the electron bombardment device and the downstream conveying device through which the paper sheet is conveyed; a mechanism for contactless transport of the paper sheet from the press device, through the shielding duct devices and the electron bombardment device and to the conveying device; shielding components for shielding from X-radiation provided in press device; and shielding components for shielding against X-radiation provided in the downstream conveying device. Advantageously the upstream and downstream shielding duct devices extend into the press device and the conveying device respectively and the entrance of the upstream shielding duct device is adjacent and close to a contact surface of a press cylinder of the press device.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a device for creating an electron curtain (5). The device consists of a cylindrical chamber (1) in which has been accommodated an elongated, electron-emitting filament (2) and a shell (3) encircling the filament so that the filament is located in an elongated depression (6) formed by the shell. Furthermore, the device comprises members (7) for accelerating the electrons and a window (4) in the wall of the chamber (1), through which the electron curtain can be directed to the outside of the device. The shell (3) encircling the filament (2) has on both margins of the depression (6) been shaped into an accelerating electrode (7) which can be brought to a negative potential with reference to the wall of the chamber (1), and the depression constitutes a diffusion volume for the electrons emitted from the filament and in the region of which there are mouldable parts, such as the accelerating electrodes (7) or the additional electrodes (9) on the bottom of the depression, by the aid of which the admission of electrons into the accelerating electric field and thereby the intensity of the electron curtain (5) that is produced are adjustable. Owing to the diffusion of electrons, it is possible with the means to produce an electron curtain with uniform intensity, and by suitably shaping the parts (7,9), the intensity distribution of the curtain may be adjusted in desired manner.
Abstract:
A charged particle accelerator vacuum chamber comprises an exit window adapted for extracting charged particles into the atmosphere, having at least one foil (1) secured in a frame (2), and guide slots (4) provided along a longer side of the exit window, the frame (2) being inserted into said slots (4).