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Emission characteristics of the thermionic electron beam sources developed at EBSDL

Masood et al., 2008

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8383659548771360327
Author
Masood K
Iqbal M
Zakaullah M
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

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The development of thermionic electron guns is of significant importance in electron beam technology. The paper is primarily concerned with the design, fabrication and experimentation of electron beam sources developed by our research group at electron …
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