Work function and surface stability of tungsten-based thermionic electron emission cathodes

Thermionic electron emission microscopy of metal-oxide multilayers on tungsten

Introduction Thermionic cathodes are used in many industrial vacuum electronic applications. Vacuum tubes for high-frequency or high-power applications are one example (e.g., see [1]). The emission properties of thermionic electron sources in vacuum devices are often Bimproved[ by the addition of oxide coatings on the metal cathode surface [2, 3]. The explanation of the improvement is usually b...

The Relation between Temperature and Work Function in Thermionic Emission.

Thermionic emission from surface-terminated nanocrystalline diamond

Thermionic electron emission forms the basis of both electron sources for a variety of applications and a direct energy conversion process that is compact and scalable. The present study characterizes thermionic emission from boron-doped nanocrystalline diamond films with hydrogen and nitrophenyl surface termination layers. A hemispherical energy analyzer was used to measure electron energy dis...

Thermionic emission properties and the work function determination of arrays of conical carbon nanotubes

a Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States b Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States c Electro-Optics Research Institute & Nanotechnology Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States d Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, Unit...

Thermionic and Photo-Excited Electron Emission for Energy-Conversion Processes

*Correspondence: Timothy S. Fisher , Birck Nanotechnology Center, 1205 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA e-mail: [email protected] This article describes advances in thermionic and photo-emission materials and applications dating back to the work on thermionic emission by Guthrie (1873) and the photoelectric effect by Hertz (1893). Thermionic emission has been employed for elec...