Grid controlled electron source and method of making same

Details Grid controlled electron source and method of making same Grid controlled electron source and method of making same

1975-01-31

1976-06-29

Chatmon, Jr., Saxfield

Electric lamp and discharge devices

Electrode and shield structures

Indirectly heated cathodes

313304, 313348, 313447, 313446, 29 2514, H01J 120, H01J 1914

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039671500

ABSTRACT:
A grid-controlled electron source comprises an apertured grid spaced in front of a thermionic cathode. Areas of the cathode directly behind the grid conductors are made non-emissive by a bonded surface layer of non-emissive material such as zirconium. On porous metal cathodes impregnated with active emitting material the metal surface may be sealed with a dense layer of inactive metal under the non-emissive layer to prevent chemical reaction of the latter with the emitting material.
Methods of depositing the surface layers in the desired pattern include coating the cathode's entire large-scale surface contour, followed by machining small concave dimples into the surface, thereby removing the non-emissive layer from the dimpled surfaces from which small beamlets of electrons are focused between the grid conductors without grid interception.
Another method is to mask the desired non-emissive areas with an apertured mask having solid elements registered with the desired positions of the grid conductors. The surface behind the mask apertures is coated with an inactive powder, then the mask is removed and the non-emissive layer or layers deposited in the uncoated, previously masked paths. Lastly, the inactive powder is removed, uncovering the emissive surface areas.

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patent: 3648096 (1972-03-01), Beggs
patent: 3818260 (1974-06-01), Elfe, Jr. et al.

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