Abstract:
An electrostatic fluid acceleration and method of operation thereof includes at least two synchronously powered stages with final or rear-most electrodes of one stage maintained at substantially the same instantaneous voltage as the immediately adjacent initial or forward-most electrodes of a next stage in an airflow direction. A single power supply or synchronized and phase controlled power supplies provide high voltage power to each of the stages such that both the phase and amplitude of the electric power applied to the corresponding electrodes are aligned in time. The frequency and phase control allows neighboring stages to be closely spaced at a distance of from 1 to 2 times an inter-electrode distance within a stage, and, in any case, minimizing or avoiding production of a back corona current from a corona discharge electrode of one stage to an electrode of a neighboring stage. Corona discharge electrodes of neighboring stages may be horizontally aligned, complementary collector electrodes of all stages being similarly horizontally aligned between and horizontally offset from the corona discharge electrodes.
Abstract:
An ion implanting system including an ion implanting chamber for implanting an ion into a semiconductor wafer, a load lock chamber for loading the semiconductor wafer into the ion implanting chamber, a turbo pump for creating a high vacuum atmosphere in the load lock chamber, a low vacuum pump for creating a low vacuum atmosphere in the turbo pump, a cryo pump controller for generating a control signal to control a pumping operation of the turbo pump, a control voltage generator for generating a control voltage in response to the control signal generated from the cryo pump controlle, an interface for generating a starting signal in response to the control voltage, and a turbo pump controller for applying a voltage to operate the turbo pump and the low vacuum pump in response to the starting signal output from the interface.
Abstract:
A system and apparatus for controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration (FRC) magnetic topology and conversion of fusion product energies directly to electric power. Preferably, plasma ions are magnetically confined in the FRC while plasma electrons are electrostatically confined in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions they are fused together by the nuclear force, thus forming fusion products that emerge in the form of an annular beam. Energy is removed from the fusion product ions as they spiral past electrodes of an inverse cyclotron converter. Advantageously, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement and energy conversion system include advanced (aneutronic) fuels.
Abstract:
This electrostatic acceleration column has first to fifth electrodes arranged in a traveling direction of ions, which are a kind of charged particles. Then, the second electrode divided into two electrode members, which are opposed to each other across a path of the ions, and to which different electric potentials are applied to deflect the ions. Further, the electrodes arranged on a downstream side from the electrode are arranged along an orbit of ions deflected by the electrode and having specific energy.
Abstract:
The present invention provides systems and methods for the nullin-targetnull reactions of radioisotopes with various reactants in order to form desired reaction products in useful states. One embodiment of the invention provides a target-holding assembly for use with a gas target and a particle accelerator configured to provide a high-energy beam along a beam axis. The target-holding assembly has a mounting portion attachable with the particle accelerator in alignment with the beam axis. A gas target holder is connected to the mounting portion and has a thermally conductive holder body with a target cavity therein configured to be in axial alignment with the beam axis. The target cavity is shaped and sized to fully contain the gas target therein for bombardment by the high-energy beam. The target body has an inlet port in fluid connection with the target cavity. The target body has a cooling channel formed therein adjacent to and isolated from the target cavity, and the cooling channel has an inlet coupleable to a cooling fluid source.
Abstract:
A coupled cavity circuit for a microwave electron tube comprises at least two resonant cavities adjacent to each other. An electron beam tunnel passes through the coupled cavity circuit to allow a beam of electrons to pass through and interact with the electromagnetic energy in the cavities. An iris connecting the adjacent cavities allows electromagnetic energy to flow from one cavity to the next. The iris is shaped to cause the iris mode passband to be lower in frequency than the cavity mode passband while still providing broadband frequency response. In addition, the present coupled cavity circuit operates on an electron beam to interact with the third space harmonic of the second passband (the cavity passband) of the electromagnetic signal. Preferably, this interaction occurs on the second passband as this operational design provides output with higher frequencies without decreasing the cavity size. Furthermore, this operational design provides more frequencies with no increase to the iris size. This results in allowing higher power to be provided to the circuit without thermal degradation of the circuit. Also, because the interaction occurs on the third space harmonic of the second passband, the present operational design results in providing flatter frequency responses.
Abstract:
A spectroscopic ellipsometer comprising a light source (1) emitting a light beam, a polarizer (2) placed on the path of the light beam emitted by the light source, a sample support (9) receiving the light beam output from the polarizer, a polarization analyzer (3) for passing the beam reflected by the sample to be analyzed, a detection assembly which receives the beam from the analyzer and which comprises a monochromator (5) and a photodetector (4), and signal processor means (6) for processing the signal output from said detection assembly, and including counting electronics (13). Cooling means (12) keep the detection assembly at a temperature below ambient temperature, thereby minimizing detector noise so as to remain permanently under minimum photon noise conditions. It is shown that the optimum condition for ellipsometric measurement is obtained by minimizing all of the sources of noise (lamps, detection, ambient).
Abstract:
A continuous wave electron-beam accelerator that accelerates a continuous wave electron beam having a large average current includes an electron beam generator 11, an electron-beam accelerating unit 13 using a radio-frequency electric field having a frequency of approximately 500 MHz to accelerate an continuous wave electron beam, and electron-beam bending units 14, 15, 16 that are provided across the electron-beam accelerating unit and that bend the continuous wave electron beam a number of times. Each electron-beam bending unit includes divided magnets 15,16 having identical-polarity magnetic fields, and controls the continuous wave electron beam to pass through the electron-beam acceleration unit 13 a number of times on almost the same path.