Stated meeting of The Franklin Institute
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Article
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1969
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Elsevier Science
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English
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While developing and manufacturing large and high-powered vacuum tubes, the staff of Varian Associates, between 1956 and 1960, recognized the advantages of a new pumping scheme for obtaining and maintaining high vacuum. This pump, called the sputter-ion pump, makes use of the chemical reaction and g