Abstract
We have developed a carbon fiber field emitter (CFFE) with a diameter of 7 μm and a bullet shape at the top. We found that a micro-pit on the top of the fiber can focus the emitted electron beam, so that the beam is inside a small solid angle around the axis of symmetry. Our investigations show that due to this effect the fiber emitter with optimized dimensions of the micro-pit has good emission stability, good reproducibility for different cathode samples and high electron optical brightness. The CFFE with micro-pit on the top has been successfully used for 14 years in the “Cwikscan-50A” electron microscope instead of the conventional tungsten field emitter.
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