Maximum time-dependent space-charge limited diode currents

M. E. Griswold; N. J. Fisch

doi:10.1063/1.4939607

Maximum time-dependent space-charge limited diode currents

M. E. Griswold, N. J. Fisch

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Recent papers claim that a one dimensional (1D) diode with a time-varying voltage drop can transmit current densities that exceed the Child-Langmuir (CL) limit on average, apparently contradicting a previous conjecture that there is a hard limit on the average current density across any 1D diode, as t → ∞, that is equal to the CL limit. However, these claims rest on a different definition of the CL limit, namely, a comparison between the time-averaged diode current and the adiabatic average of the expression for the stationary CL limit. If the current were considered as a function of the maximum applied voltage, rather than the average applied voltage, then the original conjecture would not have been refuted.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	014502
Journal	Physics of Plasmas
Volume	23
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4939607
State	Published - Jan 1 2016

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