%A"Luong, M" %D1997 %I; CEA Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, 91 - Gif-sur-Yvette (France). Dept. d'Astrophysique, de la Physique des Particules, de la Physique Nucleaire et de l'Instrumentation Associee %2 %J[] %K75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY, ADSORPTION, ELECTRON BEAMS, ELECTRON EMISSION, ELECTRON GUNS, ELECTRON SOURCES, FIELD EMISSION, FOWLER-NORDHEIM THEORY, RADIOWAVE RADIATION, SURFACE CLEANING, SURFACE PROPERTIES, SURFACE TREATMENTS %PMedium: ED; Size: 171 pages %TStudy of electronic field emission from large surfaces under static operating conditions and hyper-frequency; Etude de l'emision electronique par effet de champ sur des surfaces larges en regime statique et hyperfrequence %XThe enhanced electronic field emission from large area metallic surfaces lowers performances of industrial devices that have to sustain high electric field under vacuum. Despite of numerous investigations in the past, the mechanisms of such an emission have never been well clarified. Recently, research in our laboratory has pointed out the importance played by conducting sites (particles and protrusions). A refined geometrical model, called superposed protrusions model has been proposed to explain the enhanced emission by local field enhancement. As a logical continuation, the present work aims at testing this model and, in the same time, investigating the means to suppress the emission where it is undesirable. Thus, we have showed: the cause of current fluctuations in a continuous field regime (DC), the identity of emission characteristics ({beta}, A{sub e}) in both radiofrequency (RF) and DC regimes, the effectiveness of a thermal treatment by extern high density electronic bombardment, the effectiveness of a mechanical treatment by high pressure rinsing with ultra pure water, the mechanisms and limits of an in situ RF processing. Furthermore, the electronic emission from insulating particles has also been studied concurrently with a spectral analysis of the associated luminous emission. Finally, the refined geometrical model for conducting sites is reinforced while another model is proposed for some insulating sites. Several emission suppressing treatments has been explored and validated. At last, the characteristic of a RF pulsed field emitted electron beam has been checked for the first time as a possible application of such a field emission. (author) %0Technical Report %NCEA-DAPNIA-SEA-97-01T;TRN: FR9803408017430 %1 %CFrance %Rhttps://doi.org/ TRN: FR9803408017430 FRN %GFrench