ION SOURCE
Abstract
The ion source described essentially eliminater the problem of deposits of nonconducting materials forming on parts of the ion source by certain corrosive gases. This problem is met by removing both filament and trap from the ion chamber, spacing them apart and outside the chamber end walls, placing a focusing cylinder about the filament tip to form a thin collimated electron stream, aligning the cylinder, slits in the walls, and trap so that the electron stream does not bombard any part in the source, and heating the trap, which is bombarded by electrons, to a temperature hotter than that in the ion chamber, so that the tendency to build up a deposit caused by electron bombardment is offset by the extra heating supplied only to the trap.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 4184365
- Patent Number(s):
- 2920200
- Assignee:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01J - ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
- NSA Number:
- NSA-14-015812
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-60
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- ENGINEERING AND EQUIPMENT; CORROSION; CYLINDERS; ELECTRON BEAMS; GASES; HEATING; ION SOURCES; LENSES; PRECIPITATION; SPACERS; SURFACES; TEMPERATURE
Citation Formats
Leland, W T. ION SOURCE. United States: N. p., 1960.
Web.
Leland, W T. ION SOURCE. United States.
Leland, W T. Fri .
"ION SOURCE". United States.
@article{osti_4184365,
title = {ION SOURCE},
author = {Leland, W T},
abstractNote = {The ion source described essentially eliminater the problem of deposits of nonconducting materials forming on parts of the ion source by certain corrosive gases. This problem is met by removing both filament and trap from the ion chamber, spacing them apart and outside the chamber end walls, placing a focusing cylinder about the filament tip to form a thin collimated electron stream, aligning the cylinder, slits in the walls, and trap so that the electron stream does not bombard any part in the source, and heating the trap, which is bombarded by electrons, to a temperature hotter than that in the ion chamber, so that the tendency to build up a deposit caused by electron bombardment is offset by the extra heating supplied only to the trap.},
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place = {United States},
year = {1960},
month = {1}
}