Resonance absorption of rf electric field energy by negative point-to-plane gap

Аннотация

Resonance absorption of rf energy, the maximum of which happens at the frequency equal to or a multiple of that of Trichel pulses, was discovered on connecting both an rf voltage of low amplitude and high direct voltage to the negative point-to-plane gap. Resonance curves were recorded by scanning the high voltage at fixed frequencies. It was found that the initial portion of dependence between resonance frequency and electrostatic field strength near the plane is linear, and has the same factor of proportionality for different gap lengths, estimated as (1.0 ± 0.2) Hz m/V.