An emitter-dispenser housing for a controlled porosity dispenser cathode manufactured of a single material as a unitary piece by a chemical vapor deposition process in which a configured mandrel is coated with a layer of material such as tungsten, for example, so that when the mandrel is removed from the coating of material a hollow housing is formed having a side wall and an end wall which define a reservoir. In addition, intersecting strips of this same material as the coating, which had been placed in the mandrel, extend transversely across the reservoir with the edges thereof atomically bonded to the coating during the chemical vapor deposition to form a unitary piece. Thereafter an array of apertures is formed in the end wall of the housing by laser drilling to create an emitter-dispenser.
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