A flood beam electron gun is provided for use in remediation of hazardous volatile organic compounds (VOC) contained within a detoxification vessel. The flood beam electron gun comprises an electron emitter having a rounded emitting surface providing a conical electron beam. A control grid is spaced from and disposed substantially parallel to the emitting surface. The control grid has a plurality of holes disposed in a first pattern providing an array of individual electron beams from the conical electron beam of the emitter. An intermediate electrode is spaced from the emitter and the control grid, and has an aperture therethrough providing a substantially parallel flow of the array of individual electron beams. A target grid is spaced from the intermediate electrode and opposite from the cathode and control grid. The target grid has a plurality of holes disposed in a second pattern that is proportional to and substantially larger than the first pattern. Each of the individual electron beams pass through respective ones of the plurality of holes in registration thereof. A vacuum barrier is provided on a downstream side of the target grid to separate the electron gun from the vessel. The individual electron beams pass through the vacuum barrier into the vessel. Within the vessel, the electrons of the individual beams impact the VOCs, converting the VOCs to less hazardous organic compounds.

Flood beam electron gun

The invention relates to a cathode arrangement (20) comprising: • - a thermionic cathode comprising an emission portion (30) provided with an emission surface for emitting electrons, and a reservoir (38) for holding a material, wherein the material, when heated, releases work function lowering particles that diffuse towards the emission portion and emanate at the emission surface at a first evaporation rate; • - a focusing electrode (40) comprising a focusing surface for focusing the electrons emitted from the emission surface of the cathode; and • - an adjustable heat source (50) configured for keeping the focusing surface at a temperature at which accumulation of work function lowering particles on the focusing surface is prevented.

Cathode arrangement, electron gun, and lithography system comprising such electron gun

This disclosure depicts for use in a television picture tube having a bulb with a neck at the rear end thereof, a novel electron gun located in closely confined relationship in the neck. The gun has at least one cathode having an electron emissive coating, an apertured, substantially diamond-shaped shield cup with truncated corners and a plurality of electrodes interspaced between the cathode and the shield cup. The tube is characterized by the shield cup having one or more inward formations at one or more spaced locations around its periphery. The inward formations of the shield cup function to define one or more openings between the shield cup and the inner wall of the neck which act as cathode-erosion-suppressing by-pass vents during tube evacuation, and/or provide augmented deflection space for contact springs attached to selected opposite ones of said corners.

Electron gun shield cup providing tube evacuation bypass vents

This dispenser cathode having a good heat efficiency consists of a round cylindrical envelope having an annular hollow chamber and accommodating a heating coil electrically insulated therefrom, an electron emitting layer mounted on the outer peripheral portion of the top wall of the envelope and a metallic cylindrical member fitted to the envelope in concentrical relationship therewith in such a manner that the outer circumferential wall of said cylindrical member is spaced at a prescribed interval from the inner circumferential wall of the envelope.

Cathode with elongated heat dissipating and supporting member

The invention relates to a cathode arrangement comprising: a thermionic cathode comprising an emission portion provided with an emission surface for emitting electrons, and a reservoir for holding a material, wherein the material, when heated, releases work function lowering particles that diffuse towards the emission portion and emanate at the emission surface at a first evaporation rate; a focusing electrode comprising a focusing surface for focusing the electrons emitted from the emission surface of the cathode; and an adjustable heat source configured for keeping the focusing surface at a temperature at which accumulation of work function lowering particles on the focusing surface is prevented

Focusing electrode for cathode arrangement, electron gun, and lithography system comprising such electron gun

Several embodiments of a novel electron-gun-supporting arrangement are illustrated. Generically, the gun-support arrangements provide for openings in an elongated cylinder which houses various aspects of the electron gun. Spring metal elements secured to the inner surface of the cylinder have upraised deformations to project through the holes in this cylinder and engage the inner surface of an elongated glass tube or neck portion which houses the electron gun in conventional cathoderay-type tubes.

Bent Gronlund

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Gun-supporting cylinder centered in art neck by springs connected internally of cylinder

Annular beam flood gun for storage tubes