Observation of the Drawing Out of Needles by Electric Fields
Pavlov V.G., Rabinovich A.A. , Shrednik V.N.
It has been observed that when tungsten needles are heated to 2300 2700°K in an electric field (3-6) x 107 V/cm, the needles become sharper and elongated in directions normal to the close-packed faces, in contrast to earlier observations. The experiments were performed by field-emission electron microscopy with needles having radii 0.1 1,5 U.