Breakdown and field emission conditioning of Cu, Mo, and W

The ultrahigh-vacuum electrical breakdown characteristics of copper, molybdenum, and tungsten have been explored in a setup based on a capacitor discharge. Upon repeated sparking, tungsten and molybdenum showed improvement of the maximum applicable field before breakdown (conditioning) in contrast t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: M. Kildemo, S. Calatroni, M. Taborelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2004-09-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.7.092003