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Heat pipe oven molecular beam source

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5679880
A heat pipe oven molecular beam source wherein a hollow porous metal, metalloid or ceramic body with at least one opening is nearly saturated with the working material and heated to just above the melting point of the working material, generating a thin liquid layer of the working material on the internal surface of the body. Material passing the length of the bore of the body without striking a wall will escape and form the beam. Material striking the liquid layer covering the inside of the body will condense and be conveyed by capillary action back to the closed end of the body.
Assignee:
Secretary of Commerce
Patent Number(s):
US 4558218
OSTI ID:
5679880
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English