A vacuum gauge with microtips: the ⪡orbitip⪢ gauge

✍ Scribed by R Baptist

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 307 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0042-207X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0042-207x(97)00037-7

✦ Synopsis

A novel type of ionisation gauge equipped with a microtip cathode is described and its advantages compared to those of the Bayard-Alpert gauge are presented. In particular, it is shown that the sensitivity of the gauge is greatly increased.