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Observation of the pre-explosion state and of the initial moment of an explosion of a field emission center in a field emission microscope

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Never-before-observed emission images corresponding to a transition from intense field emission to explosive electron emission are obtained in a Muller field emission microscope with short (∼2 ns)high-voltage pulses. These images are much brighter than ordinary field emission images. Moreover, the images have a characteristic multi-brightness structure with ring-shaped frames around regions of different brightness. Analysis of the experimental data points to a field emission nature of these images. The appearance of such emission images can be explained by emission from a liquid phase which arises immediately prior to the explosion of a microemitter.

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  1. Institute of High-Current Electronics, Siberian Branch of the, Russian Academy of Sciences, 634055, Tomsk, Russian

    A. V. Batrakov, S. A. Popov & D. I. Proskurovskii

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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 67, No. 4, 280–285 (25 February 1998)

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Batrakov, A.V., Popov, S.A. & Proskurovskii, D.I. Observation of the pre-explosion state and of the initial moment of an explosion of a field emission center in a field emission microscope. Jetp Lett. 67, 299–304 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.567617

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