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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 1982
Filed:
Nov. 06, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ranbir S Bhalla, Pine Brook, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ; H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
313211 ; 252500 ;
Abstract
For HID lamps, and particularly high-pressure mercury or sodium-mercury HID lamps, the electron-emissive material portion of the lamp electrodes is Ba.sub.3 CaM.sub.2 O.sub.9 wherein M is niobium, tantalum or any combinations thereof. The specified material is highly emissive, very refractory, and essentially completely non-reactive with respect to moisture.