Electron beam brightness

ID: electron-beam-brightness

The electric current delivered per transverse probe area per solid angle. For a uniform circular probe of diameter and a small convergence semiangle , one convention is . State the accelerating voltage, angular convention and whether brightness is reduced by a voltage factor before comparing sources. A smaller aperture changes current as well as convergence; finite electron beam brightness prevents arbitrary current in an arbitrarily small probe.

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