Two-dimensional child-langmuir law for planar diode with finite-radius emitter

  • Yongdong Li*
  • , Feng He
  • , Chunliang Liu
  • , Jian Sun
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A planar diode with finite-radius emitter is studied with particle-in-cell simulations to extend the classical one-dimensional (1D) Child-Langmuir law to two dimensions. It is found that the 2D space-charge-limited current density in units of the classical 1D value follows a monotonically deceasing function of the dimensionless ratio of emitter radius (R) to gap separation (D), and the function can be extended to relativistic regime without significant modification. It is also verified that Lau's analytical prediction of the 2D Child-Langmuir law is in good agreement with the simulation results in comparison with Rokhlenko's.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIVESC2004 - 5th International Vacuum Electron Sources Conference Proceedings
Pages263-264
Number of pages2
Publication statusPublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes
EventIVESC2004 - 5th International Vacuum Electron Sources Conference Proceedings - Beijing, China
Duration: 6 Sept 200410 Sept 2004

Publication series

NameIVESC2004 - 5th International Vacuum Electron Sources Conference Proceedings

Conference

ConferenceIVESC2004 - 5th International Vacuum Electron Sources Conference Proceedings
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period6/09/0410/09/04

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