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Sources of Non-Relativistic, High-Current Electron Beams Based on the Cathodes with Built-in Arc Plasma Sources
A brief review and several new results on non-relativistic, high-current electron beams production in the guns based on the cathode unit with built-in resistively decoupled plasma sources based on vacuum arc t...
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Energy Density Distribution in the Cross Section of a Radially Converging Low-Energy High-Current Electron Beam
The energy density distribution of a radially converging low-energy (up to 25 keV) high-current electron beam has been measured using a sectioned three-channel calorimeter. The beam formation was performed usi...
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Pulse Energy of a Non-Relativistic, High-Current Electron Beam
Energetic characteristics of a high-current electron gun with a cathode assembly based on multi-gap initiation of explosive emission by dielectric surface flashover in the mode of vacuum and gas-filled diode w...
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Structure of an Electron Beam Formed in a High-Current Diode with Arc Plasma Sources Built-In to a Cathode
The distributions of the current and energy densities of low-energy (up to 30 keV), high-current (up to 20 kA) electron beam of microsecond duration have been studied with the use of thermal imaging and wide-b...
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Increasing the Pulse Energy of a Radially Converging Low-Energy High-Current Electron Beam
The energy characteristics of a high-current electron gun with a radially converging beam have been studied. The cathode unit of the gun consisted of one or two ring sections with an inner diameter of 8 cm, ea...
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Formation of a Non-Relativistic, High-Current Electron Beam in a Gas-Filled Diode
The formation process and some characteristics of a high-current electron beam in dependence on pressure and working gas (argon, air, helium) filling the diode as well as on induction of an external guide magn...
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A Source of Radially Converging Low-Energy High-Current Electron Beams
The design and some characteristics of a source of radially converging low-energy (5–25 keV) high-current electron beams of microsecond pulse duration, which is aimed at surface modification of cylindrical par...
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Cathode Assembly of a High-Current Electron Gun with Multichannel Initiation of Emission by Breakdown on the Surface of a Dielectric
A new scheme of the cathode assembly of a high-current electron gun is presented. The initiation of explosive emission is carried out using of 69 parallel triggered spark gaps, the electrodes and tubular ceram...
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Plasma Anode Formation in a High-Current Electron Gun with the Use of a Hybrid Discharge
The paper presents the results of a study of a glow spatial structure and temporal dynamics of a hybrid discharge combining a high-current reflective discharge with vacuum arcs at a voltage supplying the disch...
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Characteristics of High-Current Electron Gun with Plasma Anode Based on Hybrid Discharge
Spatial structure of glow and time dynamics of a hybrid discharge that combines high-current reflective discharge and vacuum arcs induced by spark breakdown on dielectric surface are studied at a supply voltag...
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Resistively Decoupled Explosive-Emission Cathodes for High-Current Plasma-Filled Diodes
The design and characteristics of resistively decoupled multi-emitter explosive-emission cathodes intended for high-current plasma-filled diodes are presented. The integral glow of the emission-center plasma, ...
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A High-Current Electron Gun Integrated with a Magnetron Sputtering System
The description and the main performance specifications are presented for a device in which a high-current electron gun and a magnetron sputtering system are integrated in a common casing. This device is effic...
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Generation of Low-Energy High-Current Electron Beams in Plasma-Anode Electron Guns
This paper is a review of studies on the generation of low-energy high-current electron beams in electron guns with a plasma anode and an explosive-emission cathode. The problems related to the initiation of e...
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Dynamics of pulsed magnetron discharge in high-current electron guns
High-speed video filming is applied to investigate low-pressure (argon 0.053–0.133 Pa) pulsed gas discharge dynamics in a planar magnetron built-in the explosive emission cathode of a high-current electron gun...
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A mechanism of microcrater formation in metallic material irradiated by a low-energy high-current electron beam
Experiments with stainless steel (304L grade) samples exposed to microsecond pulses of high-current low-energy (10–30 keV) electron beam have been performed to determine dependences of the morphology, average ...
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On the low-energy high-current electron beam profile controlled using ferromagnetic insertions
We report on the results of investigation of the energy density distribution over the cross section of a low-energy (10–30 keV) high-current (up to 25 kA) electron beam transported in the plasma channel in a g...
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On the current density in a high-current plasma-filled diode with an explosive emission cathode
Based on the analysis of the available data from experimental studies and numerical simulations of high-current plasma-filled diodes, it is shown that the fast (∼2 cm/μs) motion of the explosive emission catho...
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A РИТМ-СП facility for the surface alloying
A combined РИТМ-СП facility intended for forming thin alloy layers on the sample surface during the single vacuum cycle (in situ) is described. The facility consists of a low-energy (10–30 keV) high-current (u...
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Sha** of the cross section of a nonrelativistic high-current electron beam by means of return current leads
Calculation results and experimental data on sha** the cross-section of a nonrelativistic (10–30 keV) high-current (up to 25 kA) electron beam are presented. A circular beam is successfully transformed into ...
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Synthesis of Ti3Al and TiAl based surface alloys by pulsed electron-beam melting of Al(film)/Ti(substrate) system
Phase formation and surface hardening in the 100-nm-thick Al(film)/Ti(substrate) system under conditions of pulsed electron-beam melting (∼15 keV, ∼3 μs, 3–4 J/cm2) have been studied depending on the number of fi...