The intensive research on ferroelectric electron-emission mechanisms in the last decade has resulted in a wide understanding of the physics and characteristics of this plasma-assisted electron source. Nevertheless, practical devices employing this cathode were hardly introduced. In this experimental study, a high-repetition-rate microwave oscillator based on a ferroelectric electron gun has bee...

A ferroelectric cathode is employed for the first time as the electron-beam source in a microwave amplifier tube. A PLZT 12/65/35 ferroelectric ceramic with a high dielectric constant ( 4000) is used in a form of a hollow cathode. The tube is operated in poor vacuum conditions (2 10 Torr) at room temperature, in a mechanism of a cyclotron-resonance maser amplifier. The device operates near the ...

The cyclotron-resonance-maser ~CRM! array is a device in which separate electron beams perform simultaneously a cyclotron interaction with a single Bloch wave in an artificial lattice. The CRM array has the capability of generating high-power microwaves with relatively low-voltage electron beams. The low-voltage operation reduces the system overhead and leads to a relatively compact device. In ...