Transferring Gases to Vacuum Tubes

Types of Vacuum Tubes

Flow of Gases through Tubes and Orifices

The nature of gas flow in pipes and ducts changes with the gas pressure and its description is generally divided into three parts or regimes. The flow dynamics are characterized by A, the molecular mean free path, in relation to some characteristic dimension such as the diameter of a pipe. The flow regime cannot be determined from the mean free path alone but only from the relation of this para...

THRESHOLD LOGIC: FROM VACUUM TUBES TO NANOELECTRONICS Invited Paper

This paper reviews silicon implementations of threshold logic gates, covering several decades. It details numerous VLSI implementations including: capacitive (switched capacitor and floating gate with their variations), conductance/current (pseudo-nMOS, output-wired-inverters, and a plethora of solutions evolved from them), as well as many differential solutions. Nanoelectronic implementations ...

Infinite-horizon Lorentz tubes and gases: recurrence and ergodic properties

We construct classes of two-dimensional aperiodic Lorentz systems that have infinite horizon and are ‘chaotic’, in the sense that they are (Poincaré) recurrent, uniformly hyperbolic and ergodic, and the first-return map to any scatterer is K-mixing. In the case of the Lorentz tubes (i.e., Lorentz gases in a strip), we define general measured families of systems (ensembles) for which the above p...

Optimization of drift gases for accuracy in pressurized drift tubes

Modern detectors such as ATLAS use pressurized drift tubes to minimize diffusion and achieve high coordinate accuracy. However, the coordinate accuracy depends on the exact knowledge of converting measured times into coordinates. Linear spacetime relationships are best for reconstruction, but difficult to achieve in the E ∝ 1 r field. Previous mixtures, which contained methane or other organic ...