Optimisation of cold cathode ion source model

This paper represents the results of the optimisation of cold cathode ion source model with 5 cm extraction aperture diameter. In this model, the glow discharge is utilised for generation of electrons in the cathode of the ion source. The various models with different lengths of cathode and anode are tested. The shortest model with 4.5 cm in length of cathode and anode each shows satisfactory operation and can be used in cases when the high values of extracted ion current are not required. The best model from the point of view of ion beam current value and efficiency of the discharge is the model with cathode length of 7 cm and anode length of 7 cm. In this case, the obtained maximum ion beam current is 110 mA when the discharge current is 1000 mA. In case when moderate values of extracted ion beam current are necessary, it is possible to operate the ion source even without the anode magnetic system.     

Monochromatic X-Ray Sources Based on Emitters Controlled by Laser Radiation

The results of study of frequency-tuned monochromatic x-ray source are reported. The source was developed on the basis of a vacuum diode with a laser-plasma cathode. The source proposed is particularly promising, if the range of x-ray energy higher than 5 keV is of interest. The source features a spectral brightness higher than 10¹⁹ photons/(cm²·s·sr·keV) and an x-ray pulse duration no larger than 10^?8 s. An electromagnetic model of such a cathode is proposed and evaluated in order to assess the feasibility of an x-ray source with a laser-plasma cathode of higher performance. The possibility of using a ferroelectric electron emitter is discussed.     

强流离子源新型LaMo阴极实验研究

对从美国购进的强流离子源新型LaMo阴极的发射特性以及用于强流离子源阴极的放电性能进行了测试.实验结果表明了LaMo阴极是一种有效的热阴极发射体,且该阴极用于强流离子源时,离子源工作稳定,放电起弧正常,使用寿命大大延长(相对于LaB₆阴极).从实际应用来看,LaMo阴极确是强流离子源的一种有效的新型阴极.     

Gas dynamics and thermal-ionization instability of the cathode region of a glow discharge. Part II

The influence of the gas flow structure in the cathode sheath of a glow discharge on the discharge stability is studied numerically. The electric parameters are calculated in a diffusion-drift model that consistently takes into account associative dissociation as an additional electron source. The model also includes equations describing both the thermal mode of the cathode and the nonequilibrium physicochemical gas dynamics of a moderately rarefied gas. It is shown that, in a pulsed discharge, the increasing branch of the current-voltage characteristic, which is associated with the gas rarefaction behind the cathode shock wave, can change to a descending branch associated with the intensification of associative ionization. This gives rise to cathode sheath instability. The results of calculations agree well with experiments.     

GaAs真空电子源衰减模型研究

利用X射线光电子能谱(XPS)仪对激活后的GaAs真空电子源进行了随时间衰减变化的XPS分析,分析发现了电子源阴极表面各元素百分含量随时间的变化,揭示了杂质气体吸附造成的偶极矩方向的改变是电子源灵敏度显著下降的主要原因.基于上述结论,通过分析真空系统中杂质气体的吸附过程,推导并得到了GaAs电子源衰减模型.该模型从理论上揭示了GaAs电子源的指数衰减规律以及寿命与真空度的反比关系,与实验现象完全一致. 关键词： 电子源 X射线光电子能谱 衰减模型 真空度     

流体-亚稳态原子传输混合模型模拟空心阴极放电特性

利用流体-亚稳态原子传输混合模型研究了氩气矩形空心阴极放电稳态时的参数. 数值计算得到了压强为10 Torr时的电势、电子、离子和亚稳态氩原子密度以及电子平均能量的分布. 结果表明电子和离子密度峰值为4.7×10¹² cm^-3, 亚稳态原子密度峰值为2.1×10¹³ cm^-3. 本文同时对流体-亚稳态原子传输混合模型和单一流体模型模拟得到的放电参数进行了比较. 结果表明, 分步电离是新电子产生的重要来源, 亚稳态原子对空心阴极放电特性有重要影响. 与单一流体模型相比, 混合模型计算得到的电子密度升高, 阴极鞘层宽度和电子平均能量降低. 关键词： 空心阴极放电 流体-亚稳态原子传输模型 电子密度 分步电离     

一种新型微空阴极结构的大气压射频冷等离子体源

介绍微空阴极的结构和物理机理，着重介绍一种新型大气压下射频激励的大面积冷等离子体源——融合空心阴极(fused hollow cathodes，FHC).结合应用和与之有关的研究，简单介绍空心阴极的放电特性，以及影响其放电特性的因素，如阴极材料、气体种类、频率、气体流速、气压、阴极内径等.另外提到了其他两种相关的微空阴极系统. 关键词： 微空阴极 大气压 冷等离子体 射频     

猝发强流多脉冲电子束源物理设计

给出一台脉冲间隔100～1 000 ns、脉冲数2~5个、二极管电压3 MV、引出束流强度2.5 kA的猝发多脉冲电子束源的物理设计及初步调试结果。在设计中,采用感应叠加和阻抗匹配方案获得二极管高电压脉冲;试验中分别采用天鹅绒和大发射面储备式热阴极获得猝发多脉冲电子束。调试结果表明:采用大发射面热阴极可避免阴极等离子体产生,确保二极管在猝发多脉冲状态下稳定运行。初步调试获得大于2.7 MV猝发三脉冲二极管高压,并获得1.6 kA的三脉冲电子束流。     

以碳纳米管阵列为场致发射阴极的X射线源研究

碳纳米管具有优异的场发射性能 ,是一种很有前景的电子发射源。实验使用印刷方法将碳纳米管制备于玻璃基底 ,并作为X射线源的阴极。阳极材料为铜 ,其顶端为半球形 (半径为 2mm)。高压电源输出在 0～ 19kV之间可调。射线源工作真空度为 1× 10 -4Pa ,利用流气式正比计数器测到了铜kα 谱线 ,并且进行了连续 4h的运行。实验结果表明X射线源发光稳定 ,碳纳米管可以作X射线源的阴极。最后提出了改进的X射线源结构。     

空心阴极直流放电的二维自洽模型描述和阴极溅射分析

建立了空心阴极放电的二维自洽理论模型,理论研究了气压为50—120Pa,电压为150—300V的范围内Ar空心阴极放电特性、粒子密度和电离速率空间分布,特别考察了影响阴极溅射分布有关因素:阴极面上的电场、离子流和离子密度的沿阴极截面的空间分布.研究结果不仅证实了在所讨论的范围内,空心阴极效应明显存在而且发现归一化电离速率的空间分布形状强烈依赖于气压.通过研究电场、离子流和离子密度的空间分布解释了空心阴极溅射型离子激光器中不均匀阴极溅射的现象来源于阴极面附近的电场、离子流和离子密度的不均匀分布 关键词： 空心阴极放电 自洽模型 气体激光 阴极溅射     

Numerical study of chaotic oscillations in the electron beam with virtual cathode in the external non-uniform magnetic fields

In this Letter the results of theoretical investigations of the chaotic microwave oscillator based on the electron beam with a virtual cathode are presented. Nonlinear non-stationary processes in these electron systems are studied by means of numerical analysis of 2.5D model. It was discovered that the non-uniform external magnetic field value controls the dynamical regime of oscillations in the virtual cathode oscillator. The processes of the chaotization of output microwave radiation are described and interpreted from the point of view of the formation and interaction of electron structures (bunches) in the electron beams. The numerical results have shown that the investigated electron system with virtual cathode could be considered as a promising controlled source of wideband chaotic oscillations in the microwave range.     

新型二次电子倍增阴极构型设计与动力学过程

提出了一种可由脉冲功率驱动的新型二次电子倍增阴极构型,并对其进行了动力学过程的初步理论研究。首先,针对该二次电子倍增阴极,建立了动力学模型,获得了二次电子的位移和速度方程,讨论了电子初始出射速度对其轨迹、渡越时间和碰撞能量的影响,理论给出了渡越时间和碰撞能量的近似解析表达式。其次,通过动力学方程与Vaughan二次电子产额经验公式的耦合求解,获得了该二次电子倍增阴极的工作区间,并对其进行了细致讨论。结果表明:该新型二次电子倍增阴极二极管概念上是可行的,在涂敷高二次电子产额系数材料的圆柱形介质上施加合适的轴向和径向静电场(MV/m量级)以及轴向静磁场(T量级),可以达到电子沿阴极表面螺旋行进过程中实现二次电子倍增并最终获得电流沿轴向放大的设计目标。另外,讨论了正电荷沉积引发的二次电子倍增饱和现象,并对阴极发射电流密度进行了理论粗估,结果表明:阴极发射电流密度可达kA/cm2水平,具备强流发射特性;增加外加径向场强幅值可有效提升阴极发射电流密度。     

空心阴极光源在原子发射光谱分析中的应用

本文介绍了空心阴极光源发射光谱分析中用地测定痕量元素的特点,供电电源的种类,阴极灯及电极,载气的选择等。并介绍了空心阴极光源在痕量分析上的应用。     

Evolution of Copper Vapor from the Cathode of a Diffuse Vacuum Arc

The metal-vapor evolution from the cathode of a diffuse vacuum arc is described by a model that starts from the expression for the collisionless expansion into vacuum of atoms originating from an instantaneous point source. The velocity distribution is assumed to be Maxwellian at the moment the atoms are released from the source. By convolution with the vapor generation rate, which is given by an effective erosion rate and the waveform of the arc current, this expression is generalized to yield the atomic density at an arbitrary distance from a point source which emits atoms for a finite period. The result is integrated over the cathode surface which is treated as an extended homogeneous source of vapor. The copper-vapor density was calculated for a vacuum arc driven by a sinusoidal 50-Hz current half-cycle of 500 A rms, for the center of the contact gap. With a vapor temperature of 2000 K and an effective copper-vapor erosion rate of 3 ?/C, the model well describes the measured decay of the copper-vapor density from about 5 × 1017 m-3 at 300 ?s before current-zero to 5 × 1014 m-3 at 400 ?s after current-zero. Comparison with calculations based on the assumption that metal vapor is generated predominantly by molten droplets evaporating in flight indicates that before current-zero the contribution of the droplets to the vapor density is negligibly small, while after current-zero both vapor generation mechanisms produce vapor at the same order of magnitude.     

Extension of the gas-pressure operating range and increase in the lifetime of the plasma cathode grid of an ion source

A new scheme of a gas-discharge system is proposed for a basket-type ion source with a plasma cathode in which the electrons are emitted from the expanded anode part of a constricted hollow-cathode glow discharge bounded by a grid electrode. The modified electrode system of the ion source made it possible to enlarge the surface area of the plasma cathode grid and the aperture of its cells, thereby providing stable ion emission from the discharge plasma within a wide gas-pressure range and substantially (by one order of magnitude) increasing the grid lifetime. The operation of the plasma cathode in the free and forced emission modes is examined, and the energy efficiency of ion generation in the gas-discharge system under study is evaluated.     

Spatial and temporal characteristics of the X-ray emitted by a 1-J50-ns vacuum discharge

The X-ray emission from a source based on a small vacuum discharge is studied. Two different X-ray pulses whose intensities vary with the anode-cathode distance are identified. Time integrated pinhole images show that the whole anode and the teflon insulator emit X-rays. Some of the X-ray emission is found to originate also in the vicinity of the tungsten anode. The temporal behavior of the X-ray varies with respect to the distance between the anode and the cathode. Three different cathode geometries are tested: hollow cathode, hollow conical cathode, and massive or needle cathode. The spatial distribution of the X-ray sources is obtained by means of a sensitive imaging device. Some X-ray spots that appear in the discharge gap near the anode tip are similar to hot spots found in more powerful discharges     

Application of vacuum arc cathode spot model to graphite cathode

A model of near-electrode processes is applied here to describe the behavior of cathode spots on graphite cathode in vacuum arc. The physical model is based on a kinetic treatment of cathode evaporation, electron emission from the cathode, and plasma production. The model consists of physical assumptions and a system of equations that are formulated in the paper. Spot parameters, such as cathode erosion rate, cathode potential drop, cathode surface temperature, current density, electric field, and plasma density, temperature, and velocity in the near-electrode region are calculated numerically. The calculation includes the dependence of spot parameters on spot current and spot lifetime. The variation of spot parameters as a function of spot lifetime are very strong at lifetimes shorter than 10 μs. The calculations indicate that Joule heating in the cathode body is significant, and may exceed cathode heating by the ion heat flux. Calculated spot parameters are compared with the corresponding experimental data for relatively low arc currents (<100 A) and their agreement is discussed     

Localization of plasma in the extended hollow cathode of a ribbon-electron-beam plasma source at forevacuum pressures

The results of a study of the plasma density distribution in the slit aperture of a right-angled extended hollow cathode used in a ribbon-electron-beam plasma source operating at forevacuum pressures (1–10 Pa) are presented. It is shown that a local peak of plasma density appears in some region of the slit aperture as the slit width is decreased. This results in the appearance of a region of increased current density when the ribbon beam forms. The uniformity of the beam current density distribution is additionally disturbed by the reverse ion flow whose effect on the emission properties of the plasma is significant in the region of elevated pressure. A model which describes the development of plasma density nonuniformity in a hollow cathode is proposed which is based on the idea that the electron current flows predominantly through the slit aperture regions that are associated with local openings of the cathode layer ion sheaths. __________ Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 6, pp. 3–9, June, 2007.     

高电流低气压等离子体阴极电子枪设计与实验

 设计了一种新型的高功率低气压等离子体电子枪。基于空心阴极效应和低压辉光放电原理与经验，确定了空心阴极、加速间隙、工作气压范围等。提出关于等离子体阴极电子枪产生高功率、高密度电子束源的整体方案。分别在连续馈气和脉冲馈气条件下进行实验测试，得到放电电流、收集极电流与气压、脉宽及调制器电压的关系。实验获得电子枪的典型放电电流为150~200 A，脉宽60 μs；传输电子束达到30~80 A，脉宽60 μs。该结果表明该新型等离子体阴极电子枪可以取代材料阴极作为大电流、长脉冲电子束源，特别适用于等离子体加载微波管。     

Analysis of new electrical signals in respect to quantification of radio frequency glow discharge emission spectrometry

Radio frequency glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy (RF-GD-OES) is routinely used for the chemical analysis of solid samples. For quantification two independent electrical signals of the discharge are required. These are provided in real time by the glow discharge source with integrated voltage and current sensors. The available time-dependent voltage and current must be reduced. For this purpose a plasma equivalent circuit is used. It is shown that the cathode voltage and active cathode current describe the sputtering and excitation well. Measuring standard reference materials at constant cathode voltage and cathode current results in linear calibration curves.