Experimental studies were conducted to characterize and improve the performance of the flat-B ECR ion source.The emittance of the source was investigated for the first time.The output beam currents of high-charge-stat...Experimental studies were conducted to characterize and improve the performance of the flat-B ECR ion source.The emittance of the source was investigated for the first time.The output beam currents of high-charge-states of Ar(q】8)were nearly doubled by increasing the plasma electrode aperture from 4mm to 6mm in diameter.To investigate possible enhancements with broadband microwave radiation,a"white"Gaussian noise generator was employed with a TWT amplifier to generate microwave radiation with a bandwidth of～200MHz.The performance of the flat-B ECR ion source was found to be much better with narrow bandwidth radiation when the source was operated in the flat-B region.However,the ion beam intensities and charge state distributions were improved with the broadband radiation when the source was tuned off the flat-B region.展开更多
As clearly demonstrated at several laboratories,the performances of electron-cyclotron resonance (ECR)ion sources can be enhanced by increasing the physical sizes(volumes)of embedded ECR zones.En- larged ECR zones hav...As clearly demonstrated at several laboratories,the performances of electron-cyclotron resonance (ECR)ion sources can be enhanced by increasing the physical sizes(volumes)of embedded ECR zones.En- larged ECR zones have been achieved by engineering the central magnetic field region of these sources so they are uniformly-distributed"volumes"in resonance with single-frequency rf power.Alternatively,the number of ECR surfaces in conventional minimum-B geometry sources can be increased by heating their plasmas with multiple,discrete frequency microwave radiation.Broadband rf power offers a simple,low cost and arguably more effective means for increasing the physical sizes of the ECR zones within the latter source type.In this article,theoretical arguments are made in support of the volume effect and the charge-state enhancing ef- fects of broadband microwave radiation(bandwidth:200MHz)plasma heating are demonstrated by comparing the high-charge-states of Ar ion beams,produced by powering a conventional minimum-B geometry,6.4GHz ECR ion source,equipped with a biased disk,with those produced by conventional bandwidth(bandwidth:～1.5MHz)radiation.展开更多
基金Supported by the U.S.Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle,LLC
文摘Experimental studies were conducted to characterize and improve the performance of the flat-B ECR ion source.The emittance of the source was investigated for the first time.The output beam currents of high-charge-states of Ar(q】8)were nearly doubled by increasing the plasma electrode aperture from 4mm to 6mm in diameter.To investigate possible enhancements with broadband microwave radiation,a"white"Gaussian noise generator was employed with a TWT amplifier to generate microwave radiation with a bandwidth of～200MHz.The performance of the flat-B ECR ion source was found to be much better with narrow bandwidth radiation when the source was operated in the flat-B region.However,the ion beam intensities and charge state distributions were improved with the broadband radiation when the source was tuned off the flat-B region.
基金Supported by the U.S.Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle,LLC
文摘As clearly demonstrated at several laboratories,the performances of electron-cyclotron resonance (ECR)ion sources can be enhanced by increasing the physical sizes(volumes)of embedded ECR zones.En- larged ECR zones have been achieved by engineering the central magnetic field region of these sources so they are uniformly-distributed"volumes"in resonance with single-frequency rf power.Alternatively,the number of ECR surfaces in conventional minimum-B geometry sources can be increased by heating their plasmas with multiple,discrete frequency microwave radiation.Broadband rf power offers a simple,low cost and arguably more effective means for increasing the physical sizes of the ECR zones within the latter source type.In this article,theoretical arguments are made in support of the volume effect and the charge-state enhancing ef- fects of broadband microwave radiation(bandwidth:200MHz)plasma heating are demonstrated by comparing the high-charge-states of Ar ion beams,produced by powering a conventional minimum-B geometry,6.4GHz ECR ion source,equipped with a biased disk,with those produced by conventional bandwidth(bandwidth:～1.5MHz)radiation.
