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The deviation of the I–V characteristics of cathode materials in microwave devices from the Schottky law is caused by the occurrence of drift and diffusion of oxygen vacancies in barium-oxide crystallites, which are emission-active components of the cathode materials. The processing of experimental dependences using the proposed mathematical tools makes it possible to determine the barium-oxide-crystallite thickness and diffusivity of oxygen vacancies. The known diffusivity allows determining the presence of microimpurities in barium oxide, which affect its emission properties.
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Original Russian Text © V.I. Kapustin, I.P. Li, A.V. Shumanov, 2017, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2017, Vol. 43, No. 19, pp. 12–20.
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Kapustin, V.I., Li, I.P. & Shumanov, A.V. The physical mechanism of the deviation of cathode thermionic emission from the Schottky law. Tech. Phys. Lett. 43, 875–878 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785017100054
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