Published July 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Thermal analysis of heating structure for thermionic cathode electron gun

  • 1. Key Laboratory of High Energy Raddiation Imaging Fundamental Science for National Defense, Tsinghua University, Beijing (China)
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Particle and Radiation Imaging of Ministry of Education, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing (China)

Description

Some thermal analysis results of several heating structures for thermionic cathode electron gun by using ANSYS code and COMSOL code were presented in this paper, and some instructions for heating structure design were obtained. A series of heating structures of thermionic cathode were tested in experiments, verifying the results of the thermal analysis, and so an efficiency heating structure was attained. In this structure, at a heating power about 100 W, the temperature of cathode was more than 1900 K which meets at the working temperature required by Ir-Ce cathode. Under a temperature of 1800 K and the electric field on the cathode surface of 3.6 x 106 V/m, the Ir-Ce cathode gives a maximum emission current of 1.04 A and the emission current density of 13 A/cm2. (authors)

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Journal Title
High Power Laser and Particle Beams
Journal Volume
22
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 1607-1609
ISSN
1001-4322

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Notes
4 figs., 6 refs.