The Field Emission Initiated Vacuum Arc. I. Experiments on Arc Initiation
- 1 September 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 91 (5), 1043-1054
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.91.1043
Abstract
It is known that electrical breakdown between metal electrodes can be initiated by field emission. The present work concerns a further study of that initiation process under conditions of excellent vacuum and a clean cathode surface.Keywords
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