ELECTROSTATIC FOCUSING OF HOLLOW SPIRALING ELECTRON BEAMS.

Abstract

A number of experimental models of a radial injection cathode for electrostatic focusing were built and tested. The most successful of these models gave a transmission efficiency of about 70% at low perveances. The highest perveance model gave a maximum of 30% transmission. A theoretical description has been developed for the focusing of a hollow spiraling electron beam which indicates the limits on this technique. It also gives design information on injection requirements. A computer study was made of the potential in the injection region in the absence of space charge. A computer study was also made of beam trajectories in the electrostatic focusing region under a variety of injection conditions. A computer study was begun of a simplified cathode injection area including the motion of emitted electrons and space charge effects. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0650577

Entities

People

  • M. Ettenberg

Organizations

  • City College of New York

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computers
  • Efficiency
  • Electron Beams
  • Electrons
  • Space Charge
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster