DerekShannon wrote: “Over the longer run, we are looking at ways to
have a single-piece cathode made out of tungsten or tungsten-copper in order to eliminate the
rod-plate joint altogether. These steps should get rid of the filament disruption for good, enabling
results to catch up with theory.”
Will this be a departure from the original plan to go with a Beryllium set of electrodes to become transparent to X-Rays (so as not to absorb the usable energy yield) ???
