Microwave vacuum tube device employing grid-modulated cold...

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CA 2351037

An improved gridded microwave tube is provided, the tube containing a cold cathode, an anode, and a grid located between the anode and cathode. In one embodiment, the cold cathode has a refractory metal substrate and carbon nanotube emitters, the emitters having a diameter of 1 to 300 nm and a length of 0.05 to 100 µm. The grid-cathode spacing is 1 to 100 µm, the grid contains apertures having a maximum dimension of 0.5 to 100 µm, and the grid thickness is 0.5 to 100 µm. Emission from the cathode directly onto the grid material itself, which undesirably heats the grid, is reduced by either (a) the presence of a shadow mask between the grid and the emitters or (b) selective formation of the emitters in locations that correspond to the grid apertures. The microwave tube operates at a frequency of greater than 0.5 GHz, advantageously greater than 2 GHz.

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