Plasma momentum meter for momentum flux measurements
Abstract
Invention comprises an instrument in which momentum flux onto a biasable target plate is transferred via a suspended quartz tube onto a sensitive force transducer--a capacitance-type pressure gauge. The transducer is protected from thermal damage, arcing and sputtering, and materials used in the target and pendulum are electrically insulating, rigid even at elevated temperatures, and have low thermal conductivity. The instrument enables measurement of small forces (10.sup.-5 to 10.sup.3 N) accompanied by high heat fluxes which are transmitted by energetic particles with 10's of eV of kinetic energy in a intense magnetic field and pulsed plasma environment.
- Inventors:
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- Rome, IT
- Hopewell, NJ
- Princeton, NJ
- Allentown, NJ
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 868900
- Patent Number(s):
- 5239563
- Assignee:
- United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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H - ELECTRICITY H05 - ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR H05H - PLASMA TECHNIQUE
Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03073
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- plasma; momentum; meter; flux; measurements; comprises; instrument; biasable; target; plate; transferred; via; suspended; quartz; tube; sensitive; force; transducer-a; capacitance-type; pressure; gauge; transducer; protected; thermal; damage; arcing; sputtering; materials; pendulum; electrically; insulating; rigid; elevated; temperatures; conductivity; enables; measurement; forces; 10; -5; accompanied; heat; fluxes; transmitted; energetic; particles; kinetic; energy; intense; magnetic; field; pulsed; environment; thermal damage; heat flux; electrically insulating; elevated temperatures; thermal conductivity; magnetic field; elevated temperature; kinetic energy; pressure gauge; force transducer; momentum flux; energetic particles; pulsed plasma; quartz tube; target plate; type pressure; /376/73/
Citation Formats
Zonca, Fulvio, Cohen, Samuel A, Bennett, Timothy, and Timberlake, John R. Plasma momentum meter for momentum flux measurements. United States: N. p., 1993.
Web.
Zonca, Fulvio, Cohen, Samuel A, Bennett, Timothy, & Timberlake, John R. Plasma momentum meter for momentum flux measurements. United States.
Zonca, Fulvio, Cohen, Samuel A, Bennett, Timothy, and Timberlake, John R. Fri .
"Plasma momentum meter for momentum flux measurements". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/868900.
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abstractNote = {Invention comprises an instrument in which momentum flux onto a biasable target plate is transferred via a suspended quartz tube onto a sensitive force transducer--a capacitance-type pressure gauge. The transducer is protected from thermal damage, arcing and sputtering, and materials used in the target and pendulum are electrically insulating, rigid even at elevated temperatures, and have low thermal conductivity. The instrument enables measurement of small forces (10.sup.-5 to 10.sup.3 N) accompanied by high heat fluxes which are transmitted by energetic particles with 10's of eV of kinetic energy in a intense magnetic field and pulsed plasma environment.},
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year = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993},
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