HIGH VOLTAGE BREAKDOWN STUDY
Abstract
The report describes the fifteenth quarter of a study of high voltage breakdown in vacuum. The study has particular relevance to problems encountered in the development of high power vacuum tubes. During the present period the first sixteen treatments and four repeat treatments of a 32 treatment experiment were completed. This five-factor, two-level, full-factorial experiment investigates the influence on vacuum breakdown of anode material, cathode material, anode size, anode shape and electrode treatment. At present the first half of this experiment is complete; and since one factor (anode shape) was held constant during these treatments, the results can be analyzed as a four factor, full factorial experiment. The experimental results and a preliminary analysis are contained in this report. The effects of gas exposure and a transverse magnetic field were also studied by a technique of stacking. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0680950
Entities
People
- Alexander B. Watson
- F. Y. Tse
- M. J. Mulcahy
- P. C. Bolin
- W. R. Bell