DIGITAL APPROACH TO THERMIONIC EMISSION CURRENT TO VOLTAGE CONVERSION FOR HIGH-VOLTAGE SOURCES OF ELECTRONS

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Bartosz Kania

b.kania@pollub.pl

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8429-6360

Abstract

The thermionic emission current is used in many vacuum devices such as evaporators, rare gas excimers, or electron beam objects for high-energy physics. The stability of the thermionic emission current is a very important requirement for the accuracy of those devices. Hence, there is a number of control systems that use a feedback signal directly proportional to the emission current in order to stabilize the thermionic emission current. Most of them use feedback from a high-voltage anode circuit to a low-voltage cathode circuit. However, there is a novel solution that uses linear cathode current distribution and processing of two cathode circuit voltage signals for converting the emission current to voltage. However, it is based on old-fashioned analog technology. This paper shows the thermionic emission current to voltage conversion method with the use of a digital control system. A digital realization of a multiplicative-additive algorithm is presented and proper work in closed-loop mode is confirmed.

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electron emission, electron sources, control system synthesis, digital control

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Kania, B. (2022). DIGITAL APPROACH TO THERMIONIC EMISSION CURRENT TO VOLTAGE CONVERSION FOR HIGH-VOLTAGE SOURCES OF ELECTRONS. Informatyka, Automatyka, Pomiary W Gospodarce I Ochronie Środowiska, 12(4), 78–81. https://doi.org/10.35784/iapgos.3255