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IGC100- Bayard-Alpert Gauge Filaments: Tungsten or Thoria?
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Bayard-Alpert Gauge Filaments: Tungsten or
Thoria?

Introduction

 Careful attention must be applied to the choice of filament material when
  selecting a Bayard-Alpert ionization gauge for a vacuum application.

The optimum choice of filament material is very application dependent, and
interactions of the gas with the cathode material must be carefully considered.
Filaments, in both wire and ribbon shapes, are required to (1) supply a stable
electron emission current with reasonable energy input and filament temperature,
(2) have reduced chemical reactivity with the rarefied environment being
measured, (3) have a reduced evaporation rate at the operating temperature (i.e.
long life), (4) have a vapor pressure at least one tenth of the lowest pressure that
has to be measured and (5) have low levels of ionic and neutral molecule
outgassing compatible with the lowest pressure measurements.

It is commonly believed that the filament in a Bayard-Alpert gauge (BAG)
presents a reliability problem (especially when compared to Cold Cathode
Gauges) and it is often true that the operating life of hot cathode ionization
gauges is determined by filament lifetime. However, unless damaged by ion
bombardment, high pressure operation, chemical reactions or severe
contamination, filament lifetimes are usually in the thousands of hours (usually
years).

Several attempts have been made to replace hot filaments with cold electron
emitters in BAGs1; however, no commercially available gauges have resulted
from those efforts yet.

Filament Materials
Filaments are based on thermionic phenomena 2- the emission of charged
particles from the surface of a conductive material or compound at high
temperature. The emission of charged particles depends on the work function3
of the material, defined as the energy, measured in eV, required to move an
electron from Fermi level outside the surface. The filament materials used in
BAGs can be grouped into two classes: (1) pure metals and (2) oxide-coated
cathodes.

This section only concentrates on the materials commonly encountered in
commercially available gauges. For information on less common materials,
consult the excellent primer by Gear4 and the work by W. Kohl5.


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IGC100- Bayard-Alpert Gauge Filaments: Tungsten or Thoria?



Among pure metals, tungsten (W) is used on a large scale in ionization gauge
heads operated in medium and high vacuum environments. The operating
temperature of tungsten cathodes is between 1900

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