The results of an experimental study of x-ray generation aided by a ceramic piezoelectric transformer placed in vacuum are presented. X-rays were emitted with the piezoelectric transformer tuned to resonance at about 20 kHz. A characteristic emission peak of a titanium target at energy of 4.5 keV against the Bremsstrahlung background was observed in the measured x-ray spectra. The maximum energy of the x-ray Bremsstrahlung reaches 12 keV. This means that the electrons are accelerated in vacuum in the field of the piezoelectric transformer to at least 12 keV.
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Translated from Steklo i Keramika, No. 11, pp. 24 – 26, November, 2017.
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Shchagin, A.V., Miroshnik, V.S., Volkov, V.I. et al. Piezoelectric Transformer Aided X-Ray Generation in Vacuum. Glass Ceram 74, 404–405 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10717-018-0004-y
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