Negative-Ion Production of Gas Material in RF-Plasma Sputter-Type Heavy Negative-Ion Source.

A pulsed sputter negative ion source

2014 A pulsed source for Cs-ions has been constructed as part of a sputter ion source in Hortig geometry. A beam of Cs-ions is extracted from a tungsten surface ionizer and bunched into pulses a few ns wide by a combination of velocity and path-of-flight modulation. It is expected that such a beam will produce intense pulses of negative ions having pulse widths in the ns range. REVUE DE PHYSIQU...

Conceptual Design of a Sputter-type Negative Ion Source Based on Electron Cyclotron Resonance Plasma Heating

A design for a negative ion source based on electron cyclotron resonance plasma heating and ionization by surface sputtering is presented. The plasma chamber of the source is an rf-cavity designed for TE111 eigenmode at 2.45 GHz. The desired mode is excited with a loop antenna. The ionization process takes place on a cesiated surface of a biased converter electrode (cathode). The ion beam is fu...

Gas Flow Influence on Negative Hydrogen Ion Generation within the Microwave-driven Negative Ion Source*

H ion was generated through two processes within a volume Csfree source. The density of molecule hydrogen gas will impact on the electron temperature within the primary discharge chamber that will influence the population of vibrational excited H2. Within the extraction region, the interaction between molecule hydrogen and H ion will is cause the dissociation of negative ion. To better understa...

Production of large-volume negative-ion source using multistring-type CF4 magnetized plasma

Ion-acoustic instability in a dusty negative ion plasma

The ion-acoustic instability in a dusty negative ion plasma is investigated, focusing on the parameter regime in which the negative ion density is much larger than the electron density. The dynamics of the massive dust grains are neglected, but collisions of electrons and ions with dust grains in addition to other collisional processes are taken into account. The presence of a population of cha...