[Hockenbrizzle]

Hey great work. Electron beam technology has quite an interesting history and has been used for many applications.

I work at an atomic physics research institute and am currently building an electron beam ion trap. We use a compressed electron beam to ionize atoms into a highly charged state and then use these ions to observe things like electronic structure of the atom and quantum electrodynamic effects. We have an electron gun that can be biased up to 60 kV and we have a 7 Tesla superconducting coil combined with some einzel lenses to guide and compress the electron beam into the trapping area where we ionize the atoms.

I've never thought to bring my work home with me but this would be a really really cool project to undertake. Thanks for sharing.