Abstract:
Method for the regeneration of a volume getter pump in a vacuum apparatus with a volume getter pump and an ion getter pump where the operating voltage of the ion getter pump is reduced, the current through the ion getter pump is recorded for determination of the pressure in the vacuum apparatus and then a heating element of the NEG is controlled as a function of the current of the ion getter pump for the purpose of heating the NEG material.
Abstract:
A system has a linear accelerator, ion pump and a compensating magnet. The ion pump includes an ion pump magnet position, an ion pump magnet shape, an ion pump magnet orientation, and an ion pump magnet magnetic field profile. The compensating magnet has a position, a shape, an orientation, and a magnetic field profile, where at least one of the position, shape, orientation, and magnetic field profile of the compensating magnet reduce at least one component of a magnetic field in the linear accelerator resulting from the ion pump magnet.
Abstract:
An ion pump and a charged particle beam device each includes two opposite flat-plate cathodes, an anode with a cylindrical shape having openings that face the respective flat-plate cathodes, a voltage application unit configured to apply a potential higher than potentials of the flat-plate cathodes to the anode, a magnetic field application unit configured to apply a magnetic field along an axial direction of the cylindrical shape of the anode, and a cathode bar arranged within the anode. The surface of the cathode bar is formed with a material that forms a non-evaporative getter alloy film on the anode or the flat-plate cathodes.
Abstract:
In a vacuum pumping system with a plurality of sputter ion pumps the considerable reduction in its overall axial size and weight is achieved by utilizing a plurality of axially superimposed sputter ion pumps and a common magnetic circuit, which comprises a pair of external magnets located at opposite axial ends of the pumping system, one or more intermediate magnets arranged alternated with the sputter ion pumps and a ferromagnetic yoke, internally enclosing the external magnets and the one or more intermediate magnets.
Abstract:
A stand-alone plasma vacuum pump for pumping gas from a low-pressure inlet to a high-pressure outlet, composed of: a housing enclosing one or more pumping regions located between the inlet and the outlet; a plurality of permanent magnet assemblies providing magnetic fields that extend in the pumping region between the inlet and the outlet, the magnetic field forming magnetic flux channels for guiding and confining plasmas; elements disposed for coupling microwave power into the flux channels to heat electrons, ionize gas, and accelerate plasma ions in a direction from the inlet to the outlet; elements disposed for creating an electric in the magnetic flux channels to accelerate ions in the flux channels toward the outlet by momentum transfer; and a differential conductance baffle proximate to the outlet for promoting flow of plasma ions and neutral atoms to the outlet.
Abstract:
To provide a small electron gun capable of keeping a high vacuum pressure used for an electron microscope and an electron-beam drawing apparatus. An electron gun constituted by a nonevaporative getter pump, a heater, a filament, and an electron-source positioning mechanism is provided with an opening for rough exhausting and its automatically opening/closing valve, and means for ionizing and decomposing an inert gas or a compound gas for the nonevaporative getter pump. It is possible to keep a high vacuum pressure of 10−10 Torr without requiring an ion pump by using a small electron gun having a height and a width of approximately 15 cm while emitting electrons from the electron gun.
Abstract:
A sputter ion pump with a cathode having blades arranged radially adjacent the cylindrical hollow cells of the anode.This arrangement increases the probability of grazing collisions useful for the formation of fast inert gas molecules, particularly argon. This improves the pumping speed and the speed stability in time.
Abstract:
An ion pump for producing an ultrahigh degree of vacuum comprising a space formed between a first perforated flat plate-shaped electrode and a second flat plate-shaped electrode and having a high frequency electric source connected between the first and second electrodes, said space being operative to induce multipactor effect between said first and second electrodes, and an ionization space adjacent to one of said first and second electrodes and formed between a first perforated getter electrode and a second getter electrode applied with a negative potential, said ionization space being operative to cause the moving electrons produced by the multipactor effect to collide with gas molecules and ionize the latter.