Optical photography of the magnetically confined anode plasma source for repetitive intense ion beam generation

Conference · Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:428028

Johnson, D J; Crawford, M T; Maenchen, J E ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Time resolved photographs of the visible light from the Magnetically Confined Anode Plasma (MAP) source for Ion Beam Surface Treatment (IBEST) are presented. The MAP source utilizes a fast (2 {micro}s rise time) magnetic field to create a plasma in a radially injected disc shaped gas puff and subsequently inject this plasma into the accelerating gap of a 10-cm-radius high power pulsed extraction ion diode. The 600 kV, 10 kA, 100 ns duration pulse for the beam is generated by a marx generator, cable feed, and linear induction voltage adder. The application of this technology is the generation of repetitively pulsed ion beams for government and industrial treatment of metal and polymer surfaces.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 428028
• Report Number(s): CONF-960634-; TRN: IM9708%%357
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1996 IEEE international conference on plasma science, Boston, MA (United States), 3-5 Jun 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of IEEE conference record -- Abstracts: 1996 IEEE international conference on plasma science; PB: 324 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
ION SOURCES
PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
METALS
SURFACE TREATMENTS
POLYMERS
PHOTOGRAPHY
VISIBLE RADIATION
PLASMA PRODUCTION
THERMIONIC DIODES
POWER SUPPLIES