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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 123, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5008261
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences
- Program in Plasma Science and Technology
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Complex structures on a material surface can significantly reduce the total secondary electron emission yield from that surface. A foam or fuzz is a solid surface above which is placed a layer of isotropically aligned whiskers. Primary electrons that penetrate into this layer produce secondary electrons that become trapped and do not escape into the bulk plasma. In this manner the secondary electron yield (SEY) may be reduced. We developed an analytic model and conducted numerical simulations of secondary electron emission from a foam to determine the extent of SEY reduction. We find that the relevant condition for SEY minimization is (U) over bar equivalent to AD= 2 >> 1 while D >> 1, where D is the volume fill fraction and A is the aspect ratio of the whisker layer, the ratio of the thickness of the layer to the radius of the fibers. We find that foam cannot reduce the SEY from a surface to less than 0.3 of its flat value. Published by AIP Publishing.
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