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We have reported on a new method for obtaining a liquid-metal field emitter. The treatment of a porous crystal of GaP binary semiconducting compound with high-voltage pulses in a vacuum has made it possible to obtain stable structures on its surface in the form of discrete gallium clusters. These structures exhibit high emission properties, including stable currents at a level of a few microamperes, as well as the high uniformity of the distribution of emission nanocenters over the surface.
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Original Russian Text © S.A. Masalov, E.O. Popov, A.G. Kolos’ko, S.V. Filippov, V.P. Ulin, V.P. Evtikhiev, A.V. Atrashchenko, 2017, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2017, Vol. 87, No. 9, pp. 1416–1422.
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Masalov, S.A., Popov, E.O., Kolos’ko, A.G. et al. Liquid-metal field electron source based on porous GaP. Tech. Phys. 62, 1424–1430 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784217090171
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