The application of the method of the magnetic spectrum to the study of secondary electronic emission

Abstract

There are two ways of investigating the velocity distribution of an electronic emission—the retarding potential and the magnetic deflection methods. These have been applied to the case of the photo-electrons by Millikan and Ramsauer respectively. On one important point the results disagreed; Millikan found a definite maximum velocity, while Ramsauer obtained an asymptotic falling off of the number of electrons with increasing velocities. In a critical discussion of the two methods Klemperer has shown that they agree when photoelectric activity of the collecting electrode in the first, and when electronic reflection at the walls and slits in the second, are eliminated.