CN101527238A - Field emission cold cathode - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention relates to a field emission cold cathode, in particular to a field emission cold cathode (11) used in a vacuum tube. A carbon velour material (25) is composed of carbon fibers with high aspect ratio, which are embedded in a direction vertical to a base material. The tips and/or bar part of the carbon velour material (25) are/is coated with low-function cesium salt. The base material of the carbon velour material (25) is bonded to a cathode surface (27). The cold cathode (11) emits electrons when an electric field is applied even at an operating temperature lower than 90 DEG C.
Description
The application is that application number is the dividing an application for the Chinese invention patent application of " field emission cold-cathode " that 02829338.X (PCT/US2002/021283), the applying date be on July 18th, 2002, denomination of invention.
U.S. government's rights and interests statement
Make condition of the present invention and make, according to Executive Order the 1st (a) money, give the wherein all rights of United States of America government by Secretary of the Air Force's representative, qualification and rights and interests are included in foreign right.
Technical field
The invention belongs to field of vacuum tubes, relate more specifically to field emission cold-cathode as electronic emitter in the vacuum tube.
Background technology
Negative electrode is the electronic emitter that uses in a variety of vacuum tubes, the cathode ray tube that for example in television set, uses with radar with communicate by letter in the various microwave tubes that use.All these negative electrodes all must remain under the high vacuum, and are heated to very high temperature, promptly at least 900 ℃, come operate as normal.High vacuum need be used special manufacturing technique, for example has sealed equipment, and violent baking procedure.In addition, if negative electrode is shifted out from vacuum, the negative electrode vulnerable to pollution of these types so.Therefore, high vacuum has caused with pipe processing, operation and has stored the considerable restriction that is associated.
Requirement to high-temperature operation has produced several great design limit.At first, high temperature requires to use the special material that can withstand the negative electrode high-temperature operation.In addition, heater has reduced energy efficiency, and has increased volume, weight and the complexity of system.
Therefore, the negative electrode below needing, it can be operated at low temperatures and vacuum is required so strictness, but simultaneously can provide the electron emission characteristic identical with the traditional vacuum tube cathode.
Summary of the invention
The present invention has solved the above-mentioned shortcoming of prior art by being provided at cold gentleness than the field emission cold-cathode of operating under the lower vacuum degree of the field-transmitting cathode of prior art.More specifically, the present invention includes carbon filament suede (carbon velvet) material, it is made up of the high aspect ratio carbon that vertically is embedded in the basis material.Carbon velvet material is attached on the negative electrode.On fiber, deposit cesium salt (cesiated salt).When target applies enough voltage, with emitting electrons.
A second aspect of the present invention provides the manufacture method of field-transmitting cathode, comprises the formation cesiated salt solution, applies carbon velvet material with solution, and material is attached on the negative electrode.A third aspect of the present invention provides the manufacture method of field emission cold-cathode, comprises that the cesiated salt solution with vaporization deposits on the fiber of carbon velvet material, forms the cesium salt crystal on fiber, and carbon velvet material is attached on the negative electrode.
A fourth aspect of the present invention provides the method that the carbon velvet material that is attached to negative electrode is made field emission cold-cathode that applies, comprise the described material of solution spraying with cesium salt and deionized water, under at least 100 ℃ the temperature, be evacuated to less than the vacuum furnace of 1 torr in about 1 hour of the coated carbon velvet material of baking, use then dry nitrogen to the vacuum furnace ventilation to reach atmospheric pressure.
A fifth aspect of the present invention provides the method for making field emission cold-cathode, is included in all to form the cesium salt film that thickness is 1 dust to 10 micron on each of a plurality of fibers of carbon velvet material, and described carbon velvet material is attached on the negative electrode.A sixth aspect of the present invention provides the method for making field emission cold-cathode, comprise that the carbon velvet material that will have fiber is attached on the negative electrode, described fiber is immersed in the fusion cesiated salt solution, and when described fiber is immersed in the described solution, cool off described solution.A seventh aspect of the present invention provides the method for making field emission cold-cathode, comprises that the carbon velvet material that will have fiber is attached on the negative electrode, and described fiber is immersed in the fusion cesiated salt solution, described fiber is shifted out from described solution, and cool off described fiber.
Traditional vacuum tube needs high vacuum and must be heated at least 900 ℃ of cathode electrode units with normal running.Though term " cold cathode " refers at room temperature or near the negative electrode of operating under the room temperature, and be lower than the negative electrode of operating under 900 ℃ the temperature, but cold cathode of the present invention is at room temperature operated, and has therefore exempted heating of the prior art and High Operating Temperature requirement.It is also operated under than the lower vacuum degree of the negative electrode of prior art.Negative electrode of the present invention can replace being heated negative electrode and bringing advantage of any kind vacuum tube, and described vacuum tube comprises klystron, travelling wave tube, magnetron, trochotron (Magnicon) and Klystrode/IOT video transmitter.
In the detailed description with the accompanying drawing, by example principle of the present invention has been described below, other aspects of cold cathode of the present invention and advantage will become very clear.
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Accompanying drawing is the schematic diagram that is used to test the experimental facilities of field emission cold-cathode of the present invention, comprises the cross section of field emission cold-cathode of the present invention.
Embodiment
Accompanying drawing is the schematic diagram that is used to test the experimental facilities of field emission cold-cathode 11 of the present invention, and shows the cross section of cold cathode 11.This equipment comprises vacuum chamber 13 and negative electrode erecting bed 17.Bar 19 extend in the vacuum chamber 13, and can and stretch out with respect to cold cathode 11 withdrawals.Anode 21 is installed in bar 19 1 ends.Gap 23 is the distances of separating negative electrode 11 and anode 21, and can regulate by withdrawal or extension bar 19.
Cold cathode 11 is made up of high pressure lining 24, carbon velvet material 25 and cathode surface 27.As describing in detail subsequently, the low work function cesiated salt of carbon velvet material 25 usefulness is handled, and is incorporated into cathode surface 27.Carbon velvet material 25 is made up of the high aspect ratio carbon that embeds perpendicular to basis material.Such concrete material is
Appligue (applique), it is the proprietary product of Energy Science Laboratories company.
Appligue is made up of the high aspect ratio carbon that is embedded in the viscosity matrix, and owing to its optical characteristics is developed, that is, and as being used for the black appligue that ultralow reflectivity and diffused light suppress in the optical system.
Carbon velvet material 25 is flexible, and can be incorporated at an easy rate on the cold cathode 11 of Any shape.When cathode surface 27 is metal, can use conducting epoxy resin that carbon velvet material 25 is bonded to cathode surface 27.Perhaps, can make pyrolysis carbon velvet material 25 is attached to carbon substrate in conjunction with (pyrobonding).By forming the cesium salt crystal on the tip of carbon velvet material 25 fibers, and deposit thickness is the film of 1 dust to 10 micron in fiber rod portion, realizes cold electron emission.
In order only to apply the fiber rod portion of carbon velvet material 25, can not be attached to mask on it using cesium salt on the fibre tip.After being coated to cesium salt on the fiber, remove this mask by etching.
Can will hang down work function cesiated salt by several diverse ways deposits on the carbon velvet material 25.There are two kinds of methods to use the medium of the solution of highly purified cesium salt and deionized water as cesiated salt deposition.More specifically, at first cesium salt is mixed with deionized water.Then, use atomizer that cesiated salt solution is sprayed on the carbon velvet material 25.Use grade five dry nitrogen that the back pressure of atomizer is provided.Apply two to four coatings.Then, cold cathode 11 is put in the vacuum furnace that is evacuated to less than 1 torr, uses the nitrogen of grade five dry to ventilate then and make it reach atmospheric pressure with evaporation deionized water (carrying out more than 100 ℃ about 1 hour) at baking time enough under enough temperature.
A variety of low work function cesiated salt be can use, cesium iodide (CsI), cesium tellurate (CsTeO comprised
4) and cesium bromide (CsBr).Though the single cycle will be improved cathode performance and be reduced the degassing, the additional cycle will further be improved the service behaviour of cold cathode 11.But this improvement is the highest can only to reach certain point, and additional cycle will increase required turn-on field again on this point, that is, electronics begins the electric field level when negative electrode 11 flows to anode 21.
Perhaps, the fiber of carbon velvet material 25 can be dipped in the cesiated salt solution.Then, will under atmospheric pressure be baked to about 110 ℃ by the assembly that cold cathode 11 and solution pool constitute, up to solution crystallization in the tip of carbon velvet material 25 and/or bar portion.In this stage, cold cathode 11 is withdrawed from from the pond, and in vacuum furnace, toast to evaporate all residual water in tip and/or the bar portion.Then, use drying nitrogen that vacuum furnace is ventilated to reach atmospheric pressure.
In another optional situation, can be by in the crucible that cold cathode 11 is dipped into the fusion cesium salt fiber being submerged, on the fiber of carbon velvet material 25, to deposit cesium salt.Then, the fusion cesium salt is cooled off with the fiber that still is submerged, up to cesium salt crystallization in tip and/or bar portion.Can be by chemical vapour deposition (CVD), make in tip and/or bar portion, to form the cesium salt crystal, come in the tip of carbon velvet material 25 and/or bar portion, to deposit cesium salt.Each is all more expensive and consuming time than the deionized water solution that uses cesium salt in these methods.But each can both form more uniform cesium salt coating, and does not also need to toast cold cathode 11 and remove too much water vapour.
When applying negative voltage on cold cathode 11, electronics emits from cathode surface 27, quickens by anode-cathode gap 23, and impinge anode 21 then.Turn-on field is low to 0.2kV/cm.This is much smaller than the general turn-on field of traditional vacuum tube.Voltage source can be pulse or continuous.Cold cathode 11 can have Any shape, and is for example spherical, columniform or the plane.Anode-cathode gap 23 can be that any interactional zone or other use the zone that is launched electronics therein.Anode 21 can be to collect any zone or the structure that is launched electronics.
The turn-on field of cold cathode 11 can change in several modes, will be to the requirement of its equipment that uses to satisfy.With respect to carbon velvet material 25, longer, narrower fibre tip and lower Shu Midu allow to produce bigger field at fibre tip to be strengthened, thereby and reduces the turn-on field of cold cathode 11.And the distribution of finding fibre length tends to reduce turn-on field.
Also can be by the cesium salt concentration (density) in the solution of change and deionized water, and variation is coated to the quantity of the coating in carbon fiber tip and the bar portion, change turn-on field, that is, increase concentration or coating quantity (being up to certain point) and can reduce turn-on field.For example, in some microwave tube, expectation reaches up to voltage just electron stream when it completely is worth.This just can realize by increasing Shu Midu and reducing applied cesium salt amount, perhaps by by reducing coating quantity or realizing by the cesium salt concentration that reduces in the solution with ionized water.
Claims (9)
1. a coating is attached to the method that carbon velvet material on the negative electrode is made field emission cold-cathode, it is characterized in that:
Form the solution of low work function cesiated salt and deionized water;
Described cesiated salt solution is sprayed on the described carbon velvet material, to form coated carbon velvet material;
In the vacuum furnace that is evacuated to less than 1 torr, the described coated carbon velvet material of baking is about 1 hour under at least 100 ℃ temperature; And
Use dry nitrogen that described vacuum furnace ventilation is reached atmospheric pressure.
2. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that,
Described spraying step comprises with dry nitrogen pressurizes to spray equipment,
Described cesium salt be selected from cesium iodide, cesium tellurate and cesium bromide and
Repeat described formation, spraying, baking and aeration step, on a plurality of fibers, form thickness and be not more than 10 microns cesium salt film in described carbon velvet material.
3. method of making field emission cold-cathode is characterized in that:
The cesiated salt solution of vaporization is deposited on the fiber of carbon velvet material;
On described fiber, form the cesium salt crystal; And
Described carbon velvet material is attached on the negative electrode.
4. method as claimed in claim 3, wherein integrating step comprises the pyrolysis combination.
5. as claim 3 or 4 described methods, wherein, described solution comprises deionized water, and described formation step comprises the evaporation deionized water.
6. method of making field emission cold-cathode is characterized in that:
Forming thickness on a plurality of fibers of carbon velvet material is to be not more than 10 microns cesium salt film; And
Described carbon velvet material is attached on the negative electrode.
7. method as claimed in claim 6, wherein integrating step comprises the pyrolysis combination.
8. method of making field emission cold-cathode is characterized in that:
The carbon velvet material that will have fiber is attached on the negative electrode;
Described fiber is immersed in the fusion cesiated salt solution; And
When being immersed in the described solution, described fiber cools off described solution.
9. method of making field emission cold-cathode is characterized in that:
The carbon velvet material that will have fiber is attached on the negative electrode;
Described fiber is immersed in the fusion cesiated salt solution;
Described fiber is shifted out from described solution; And
Cool off described fiber.
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