One way to increase the power
of an electron gun is to make the tip really sharp, which makes it easier to get the electrons out, Melosh said.
Not exact matches
At Oakley, Jannard had thrown himself into the creative engineering process, enlisting technologies such as liquid laser prototyping and
electron - beam
gun - vapor deposition in his quest to make state -
of - the - art sunglasses.
They sound like futuristic weapons, but
electron guns are actually workhorse tools for research and industry: They emit streams
of electrons for
electron microscopes, semiconductor patterning equipment and particle accelerators, to name a few important uses.
It will scour the cosmos for protons,
electrons and gamma rays, which could reveal smoking -
gun signals
of dark matter.
«This is unambiguous smoking -
gun evidence to confirm theoretical predictions for the conduction
of electrons in these materials,» said Purdue University doctoral student Yang Xu, lead author
of a paper appearing this week in the journal Nature Physics.
To determine the structural and chemical composition
of the soft tissues Lindgren collected and see if the fossil sea turtle did have a dark colored shell, the researchers subjected the sample to a selection
of high - resolution analytical techniques, including field emission
gun scanning
electron microscopy (FEG - SEM), transmission
electron microscopy (TEM), in situ immunohistochemistry, time -
of - flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF - SIMS), and infrared (IR) microspectroscopy.
Essentially, they use an
electron gun to introduce a low - energy
electron beam into a short stretch
of the RHIC accelerator.
A team at Berkeley Lab has designed, built, and delivered a unique version
of a device, called an injector
gun, that can produce a steady stream
of these
electron bunches.
The unique
electron gun that Filippetto and his team are using is a part
of Berkeley Lab's APEX (Advanced Photo - injector EXperiment), which has served as a prototype system for LCLS - II, a next - generation X-ray laser project underway at SLAC National Acceleratory Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif..
In a CRT, an
electron gun shoots a stream
of electrons that is filtered to become the image that appears on your screen.