The present invention provides an aluminum
carbide alloy filament and its manufacturing method, a heating device, and relates to the technical field of filament
cathode materials. The aluminum
carbide alloy filament includes a matrix (100) and a
carbide layer (200) attached to the outer surface of the matrix (100). The carbide layer (200) has a grain width of 1.0 μm to 15.0 μm. The components of both the matrix (100) and the carbide layer (200) include
tungsten, carbon,
oxygen, and an M element, where the M element is one or a combination of elements selected from the group consisting of La, Y, Sc, Nd, Sm, Lu, Ce, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Pr, Er, Tm, Yb, Eu, Hf, and Zr. The
tungsten carbide
alloy filament does not include
thorium. This material improves the emission stability of
tungsten alloy filaments and achieves the stable emission capability of conventional
thorium-tungsten filaments without adding
thorium, solving the problem of the relatively poor stable emission capability of existing thorium-free tungsten filaments and also eliminating the problem of
radioactive contamination that occurs with conventional thorium-tungsten filaments.