Tungsten Thermionic Emission as a Gauge for Low Pressures of Cesium Vapor
Instruments(2020)
Abstract
Heated metal filaments under electric fields and low pressures of alkali metal gaseject electrons by thermionic emission as a function of the pressure of the gas and thetemperature of the filament. To explore this process in a program to develop large-area alkali metal photocathodes, we have designed and built a gauge following thestudies of Taylor and Langmuir. We present proof-of-principle measurements ofthe thermionic emission of a tungsten filament in cesium vapor. We describe a secondgeneration design that corrects flaws in the first gauge.
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Key words
thermionic emission,cesium pressure gauge,tungsten work-function
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