Electric lamp and discharge devices – Electrode and shield structures – Cathodes containing and/or coated with electron emissive...
Patent
1975-10-06
1977-04-19
Chatmon, Jr., Saxfield
Electric lamp and discharge devices
Electrode and shield structures
Cathodes containing and/or coated with electron emissive...
252521, 428 77, 313337, 313346DC, H01J 114, H01J 1906
Patent
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040190811
ABSTRACT:
A reaction cathode with high thermic emission which is especially suited for vacuum tube application and which contains a compound of a monolayer forming element which is liberated by a supply reaction which proceeds during the operation of the cathode, wherein the monolayer forming element is at least one of the elements selected from the group consisting of yttrium and lanthanum, and wherein said cathode further contains at least one metal selected from the group consisting of palladium, platinum, rhodium and ruthenium, as a diffusion-enhancing agent.
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Buxbaum Charley
Gessinger Gernot
BBC Brown Boveri & Company Limited
Chatmon, Jr. Saxfield
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