---
title: "Field-Emission Plug-And-Play Solution For Microwave Electron Guns"
description: "A team of researchers has created and demonstrated a field-emission plug-and-play solution based on ultrananocrystalline diamond for use in electron guns"
date: "2014-11-18"
modified: "2014-11-18"
authors:
  - name: "Andrew Johnson"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/andrewjohnson"
url: "https://futurism.com/field-emission-plug-play-solution-microwave-electron-guns"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
---

# Field-Emission Plug-And-Play Solution For Microwave Electron Guns

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- Microwave electron guns provide a higher current and much higher quality electron beams than conventional DC guns
- Beams of this sort are also used in free-electron lasers, synchrotrons, linear colliders and wakefield accelerator schemes
- The team's technology is relevant to many existing industrial and medical challenges