Field Emission Studies for Microwave and Optical Wave Generation

Abstract

We have proposed hybrid electronics based on solid-state and vacuum electron devices for an application to relatively high power and high efficiency active devices in microwave and optical wave regions. The new electronics provides a bunched electron beam in these frequency regions and a fine beam with an extremely low electron temperature by the combination between field emission and semiconductor technologies. The paper describes the experiments of microwave electron emission from a GaAs field emitter caused by a traveling dipole domain originated by the Gunn effect in the compound semiconductor emitter and resonant tunneling emission from a GaAs/AlAs quantum structure. In addition, the paper describes Smith-Purcell radiation in optical wavelength using a field emitter arrays.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 29, 2000
Accession Number
ADP011730

Entities

People

  • D. Arslan
  • H. Mimura
  • K. Okamura
  • K. Yokoo
  • O. Yilmazoglu

Organizations

  • Tohoku University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Compound Semiconductors
  • Diodes
  • Electron Beams
  • Electron Emission
  • Electronics
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Electrons
  • Emission
  • Emitters
  • Field Emission
  • Free Electron Lasers
  • Frequency
  • Gunn Effect
  • Photoexcitation
  • Power Spectra
  • Radiation
  • Semiconductors

Fields of Study

  • Materials science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing