Abstract
Current characteristics of a plasma-filled, high-current electron gun with a new cathode assembly which can be named as a controlled explosive-emission cathode have been investigated. Multi-gap initiation of explosive emission is performed with the use of parallel operated, resistively decoupled arc plasma sources which electrodes and tube ceramic isolators are built-in to the explosive-emission cathode. The initiation of explosive emission was performed using 69 operating in parallel arc plasma sources whose electrodes and tubular ceramic insulators are inserted to the disk explosive-emission cathode. Experiments have demonstrated operability of high-current electron gun with a new cathode assembly at accelerating voltage up to 30 kV and its good emissivity (average in area current density) which was approximately 1.4–2.4 times higher than an emissivity of traditional electron gun with plasma anode and multi-wire copper cathode.
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