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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 1980
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Russell W Dreyfus, Mt. Kisco, NY (US);
Nicholas A Penebre, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Richard A McCorkle, South Salem, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ; H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3151118 ; 3131 / ; 313230 ; 313362 ;
Abstract
The present invention describes an ion gun which is capable of producing relatively high density ion currents. The ion gun employs at least one capillary duct the surface of which is semiconducting and has secondary electron emission coefficient greater than one to generate ions from a source of an ionizable material and to accelerate the ions so generated.