Figure 3

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Fig. 3. Beam injection against a very negatively biased grid which reflects all electrons. Note dark sheath near grid where the electron energy is decreased below 10 eV. The electrons stagnate in the dark sheath and form a convex equipotential surface. This causes the reflected beam to be highly divergent.

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