GB862835A - A device for producing energetic ions - Google Patents

A device for producing energetic ions

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Publication number
GB862835A
GB862835A GB16927/59A GB1692759A GB862835A GB 862835 A GB862835 A GB 862835A GB 16927/59 A GB16927/59 A GB 16927/59A GB 1692759 A GB1692759 A GB 1692759A GB 862835 A GB862835 A GB 862835A
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discharge
arc
feed
magnetic field
gas
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GB16927/59A
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US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05H—PLASMA TECHNIQUE; PRODUCTION OF ACCELERATED ELECTRICALLY-CHARGED PARTICLES OR OF NEUTRONS; PRODUCTION OR ACCELERATION OF NEUTRAL MOLECULAR OR ATOMIC BEAMS
    • H05H1/00—Generating plasma; Handling plasma
    • H05H1/02—Arrangements for confining plasma by electric or magnetic fields; Arrangements for heating plasma
    • H05H1/16—Arrangements for confining plasma by electric or magnetic fields; Arrangements for heating plasma using externally-applied electric and magnetic fields
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J17/00—Gas-filled discharge tubes with solid cathode
    • H01J17/02—Details
    • H01J17/14—Magnetic means for controlling the discharge
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J27/00—Ion beam tubes
    • H01J27/02—Ion sources; Ion guns
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J27/00—Ion beam tubes
    • H01J27/02—Ion sources; Ion guns
    • H01J27/04—Ion sources; Ion guns using reflex discharge, e.g. Penning ion sources

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Combustion & Propulsion (AREA)
  • Optics & Photonics (AREA)
  • Plasma & Fusion (AREA)
  • Spectroscopy & Molecular Physics (AREA)
  • Electron Sources, Ion Sources (AREA)

Abstract

862,835. Ion sources. UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION. May 19, 1959 [July 9, 1958], No. 16927/59. Class 39(1). An ion source comprises a vacuum chamber, means 8, 9 for establishing a magnetic field therein, means for initiating a gas-fed arc discharge 7 within the chamber with the axis of the arc parallel to the direction of the magnetic field, and means for maintaining a selected pressure gradient between the arc discharge and the volume surrounding the discharge. It is stated that this results in the establishment of time-varying electric fields in the region of the discharge wherein some of the electrons are accelerated and their increased energy is transferred to the ions in the surrounding volume. For example, the gas-feed through feed pipe 5 may be such that the pressure near the filament 1 is 10<SP>-3</SP> mm. Hg and the pressure in the outer regions is maintained by a pump at about 10<SP>-5</SP> mm. Hg. Deuterium hydrogen and nitrogen may be utilized as feed gases. The discharge is struck between a heated filament 1 and a floating electron reflector 2 and a pair of earthed apertured collimating electrodes 3, 4 is located between the electrodes 1, 2. The arc may be pulsed.
GB16927/59A 1958-07-09 1959-05-19 A device for producing energetic ions Expired GB862835A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US747551A US2928966A (en) 1958-07-09 1958-07-09 Arc discharge and method of producing the same

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GB862835A true GB862835A (en) 1961-03-15

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GB (1) GB862835A (en)
NL (1) NL241076A (en)

Cited By (1)

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GB2211020A (en) * 1987-10-10 1989-06-21 Wallach Eric Robert Microprobe mass analyser

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US3067347A (en) * 1959-11-12 1962-12-04 High Voltage Engineering Corp Reduction in tandem loading
US3363130A (en) * 1965-10-23 1968-01-09 Atomic Energy Commission Usa Frequency tuning of an energetic arc discharge by varying the diameter of the cylindrical hollow arc
US3326769A (en) * 1966-07-20 1967-06-20 Rodger V Neidigh Energetic electron plasma blanket
US4728862A (en) * 1982-06-08 1988-03-01 The United States Of America As Represented By The United States Department Of Energy A method for achieving ignition of a low voltage gas discharge device
US8759788B1 (en) * 2013-03-11 2014-06-24 Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. Ion source

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US2764691A (en) * 1953-08-03 1956-09-25 Jr John A Hipple Analysis by imparting unequal energies to ions
US2772364A (en) * 1955-05-06 1956-11-27 Cons Electrodynamics Corp Mass spectrometry
US2826708A (en) * 1955-06-02 1958-03-11 Jr John S Foster Plasma generator
US2831996A (en) * 1956-09-19 1958-04-22 Eugene F Martina Ion source

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2211020A (en) * 1987-10-10 1989-06-21 Wallach Eric Robert Microprobe mass analyser

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