Study on the fringe field effect of quadrupoles for CSNS MEBT

Background Medium energy beam transport(MEBT)of the China Spallation Neutron Source matches the beam from RFQ to DTL.It is found in the beam commissioning that the fringe field effect of quadrupoles in MEBT has a great influence on matching.Purpose The aspect ratio of the quadrupoles is 1.67,which induces a strong fringing field effect,and the hard-edge model used in the design needs to be improved.Methods The slicing model was performed,and the accuracy of the quadrupole model was improved.Furthermore,to use the improved model online,based on the premise that the integral field of the quadrupole magnet remains unchanged,an equivalent transfer matrix was worked out to make the beam parameters consistent with the slicing model in the simulation.Results and conclusions In the machine study,with the new model,the beam parameters at the RFQ exit were measured,which is much closer to the RFQ design value.The MEBT lattice was redesigned based on the equivalent transfer matrix.With the new matched MEBT,the transmission rate of DTL reached 99.5%in the beam commissioning,which is increased by a factor of 3%.

A 90° mixed-mode twisted nematic liquid-crystal-on-silicon with an insulating protrusion structure

A 90°mixed-mode twisted nematic liquid-crystal-on-silicon(90°-MTN LCoS) with protrusion located between the adjacent pixels is proposed to reduce the effect of fringing field. The influence of the protrusion with different widths from0.5 μm to 0.9 μm and different heights from 0.3 μm to 0.7 μm is investigated. The results demonstrate that the invalid pixel region width can be reduced by 31.5% via using the protrusion with the suitable width and height compared with no protrusion case, which provides a higher display quality, such as the higher reflectance and contrast ratio.

Design and Analysis of a Novel Rotor-Segmented Axial-Field Switched Reluctance Machine

As excitation strategy is influenced by the parity of phase number,and serious end effect is caused by full pitch windings adopted by the conventional rotor-segmented switched reluctance machine(RS-SRM),a novel rotor-segmented axial-field switched reluctance machine(RS-AFSRM),which adopts concentrated windings,is proposed in this paper,whose control strategy is independent of the parity of phase number.The stator of the proposed RS-AFSRM consists of inner and outer flux-conductive ring,excitation poles,and stator yoke,while the rotor consists of fan-shape cylinder-type segments.The structure and principle of the proposed machine is introduced through the magnetic circuit model of the machine.The fringing effect on air-gap field is considered.The simplified magnetic circuit considering the fringing effect is presented and the fringing effect coefficient is introduced.The design procedure considering the fringing effect through iterative modification is presented in this paper and is validated through 3D finite-element method(3D-FEM).Results show that both magnetic field distribution and operation are reasonable and satisfy the requirements.

Characteristics of a novel biaxial capacitive MEMS accelerometer

A novel MEMS accelerometer with grid strip capacitors is developed.The mechanical and electrical noise can be reduced greatly for the novel structure design.ANSOFT-Maxwell software was used to analyze the fringing electric field of the grid strip structure and its effects on the designed accelerometer.The effects of the width,thickness and overlapping width of the grid strip on the sensing capacitance are analyzed by using the ANSOFT-Maxwell software.The results show that the parameters have little effect on the characteristics of the presented accelerometer. The designed accelerometer was fabricated based on deep RIE and silicon-glass bonding processes.The preliminary tested sensitivities are 0.53 pF/g and 0.49 pF/g in the x and y axis directions,respectively.A resonator with grid strip structure was also fabricated whose tested quality factor is 514 in air,which proves that the grid strip structure can reduce mechanical noise.

Design of an efficient monochromatic electron source for inverse photoemission spectroscopy

A design for an efficient monochromatic electron source for Inverse Photoemission Spectroscopy （IPES） apparatus is described. The electron source consists of a BaO cathode, a focus electrostatic lens, a hemispherical deflection monochromator （HDM）, and a transfer electrostatic lens. The HDM adopts a “slit-in and slit-out” structure and the degradation of first-order focusing is corrected by two electrodes between the two hemispheres, which has been investigated by both analytical methods and electron-ray tracing simulations using the SIMION program. Through the focus lens, the HDM, and the standard five-element transfer lens, an optimal energy resolution is estimated to be about 53 MeV with a beam flux of 27 μA. Pass energy （P.E.） of 10 eV and 5 eV are discussed, respectively.