The energy balance measurement of electron emission at a wall submitted to electron impact at low incident energy is a topic of interest for miscellaneous technological applications. This article points out the experimental protocol, biases corrections and post-process needed to obtain reproducible and quantitative electron emission measurements. The measurements have been performed for incident electrons energy between 5 eV and 105 eV and for three samples materials: silver, graphite and SiO 2. These measurements show that wall absorbs more energy at high incident electrons energy and that graphite absorbs more energy than silver, than SiO 2. Results are presented for mono-energetic incident electron beam and for a Lambertian energy distribution. Analytical laws fitted from experimental results and applicable for modelling issue are proposed for a Lambertian distribution of incident electrons.

Electron emission measurements have been performed on a BN sample by using a new specific protocol and experimental setup , which allows characterizing electron emission under electron impact on resistive material in a short time and with a wide variety of extracted data: total electron emission yield, emitted electron energy distribution, elastically backscattered electron emission yield and energy efficiency of electron-surface interaction. Methodology, calibration, biases corrections and results are presented in this letter. Results are compared to that measured on another material SiO2. As there are few published data on electron emission at low incident electron energy on BN sample, it is expected that these measurements could be useful for numerous studies implying electron emission on BN surface. * * * Mr. Villemant benefits from an Onera/Cnes PhD. fellowship. Moreover, the authors are grateful to T. Gineste to allow using its calibration values and substantial experimental data for this work. This work is supported by the CNES Research and Technology Program.