A practical, in-depth description of the physics behind electron emission physics and its
usage in science and technology Electron emission is both a fundamental phenomenon and …

This work reviews the progress in the area of high current density electron emitters,
specifically for use in high frequency and high-power microwave vacuum electron devices …

In this article, we examine the Fowler–Nordheim (FN) equation for field emission using
pedagogical models to introduce and illuminate its origins, limitations, extensions, and …

During the historical development of Vacuum Electronics a lot of review articles and also
several more extensive textbooks have been written on vacuum electron sources, reflecting …

Analytically tractable models of thermal-field emission, field enhancement, and heating
mechanisms (Nottingham and resistive) are developed and combined to make estimates of …

Technologies for the cathode substrate side of field emission displays (FEDs) are briefly
described. In addition to electron emitter technologies, evaluation techniques and ways to …

This paper reports the results of the development of a traveling-wave tube (TWT) amplifier
designed and operated using a high-frequency emission-gated field emitter array (FEA) cold …

Achieving small transverse beam emittance is important for high brightness cathodes for free
electron lasers and electron diffraction and imaging experiments. Double-gate field emitter …

The authors present recent advances in the uniformity conditioning of diamond field emitter
arrays (DFEAs). Postfabrication conditioning procedures consisting of thermal annealing …

The generation of highly collimated electron beams from a double-gate field emitter array
with 40000 metallic tips and large collimation gate apertures is reported. Field emission …