Electron cyclotron resonance heating in a short cylindrical plasma system

Electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma is produced and studied in a small cylindrical system. Microwave power is delivered by a CW magnetron at 2.45 GHz in TE¹⁰ mode and launched radially to have extraordinary (X) wave in plasma. The axial magnetic field required for ECR in the system is such that the first two ECR surfaces (B = 875.0 G andB = 437.5 G) reside in the system. ECR plasma is produced with hydrogen with typical plasma density n^e as 3.2 × 10¹⁰ cm^-3 and plasma temperature T^e between 9 and 15 eV. Various cut-off and resonance positions are identified in the plasma system. ECR heating (ECRH) of the plasma is observed experimentally. This heating is because of the mode conversion of X-wave to electron Bernstein wave (EBW) at the upper hybrid resonance (UHR) layer. The power mode conversion efficiency is estimated to be 0.85 for this system. The experimental results are presented in this paper.     

Unstable plasma characteristics in mirror field electron cyclotron resonance microwave ion source

Electron cyclotron plasma reactor are prone to instabilities in specific input power [3–7] region (150–450 watts). In this region power absorption by gas molecules in the cavity is very poor and enhanced input power gets reflected substantially without increasing ion density. There are abrupt changes in plasma characteristics when input power was decreased from maximum to minimum, it was observed that reflected power changed from <2% to ∼50%. Minimum two jumps in reflected power were noticed in this specific power region and these appear to be highly sensitive to three stub tuner position in the waveguide for this particular input power zone. Unstable plasma region of this source is found to be dependent upon the magnetic field strength. Some changes in reflected power are also noticed with pressure, flow and bias and they are random in nature.     

微波电子回旋共振等离子体阴极电子束的实验研究

介绍了实验室研制的微波电子回旋共振(ECR)等离子体阴极电子束系统及初步研究结果，该系统包括微波ECR 等离子体源、电子束引出极、聚焦线圈等。通过测量水冷靶电流和靶上的束斑尺寸，实验研究了微波ECR 等离子体阴极电子束的流强、聚束性能等随电子束系统工作条件的变化。结果表明：微波输入功率越高、引出电压越高，引出电子束流强越大；工作气压对电子束流强的影响较复杂，随气压增加呈现出先降低后升高的特点；在7×10⁻⁴Pa 的极低气压下电子束流强可达75mA，引出电压9kV；能量利用率可达0.6；调整聚焦线圈的驱动电流，电子束的束斑直径从20mm 减小到13mm，电子束流强未有明显变化。     

托卡马克等离子体中的电子回旋波电流驱动

通过将波迹方程与相对论情况下的完全Fokker-Planck方程联合进行求解,研究了寻常波基频电子回旋波从托卡马克等离子体中平面弱场侧发射时的电流驱动。数值结果表明:随着等离子体电子密度、温度的提高, 功率沉积和电流分布的位置将向等离子体的边缘方向偏移,并且产生的总的驱动电流随之减小;入射波极向发射角和环向发射角度的改变对功率沉积、电流分布及其大小产生明显的影响。     

Characteristics of electron cyclotron resonance plasma formed by lower hybrid current drive grill antenna

A 3.7 GHz system, which is meant for LHCD experiments on ADITYA tokamak, is used for producing ECR discharge. The ECR discharge is produced by setting the appropriate resonance magnetic field of 0.13 T, with hydrogen at a fill pressure of about 5 × 10⁻⁵ Torr. The RF power, up to 10 kW (of which ∼50% is reflected back), with a typical pulse length of 50 ms, is injected into the vacuum chamber of the ADITYA tokamak by a LHCD grill antenna and is used for plasma formation. The average coupled RF power density (the RF power/a typical volume of the plasma) is estimated to be ∼5 kW/m³. When the ECR appears inside the tokamak chamber for the given pumping frequency (f = 3.7 GHz) a plasma with a density (n _e) ∼ 4 × 10¹⁶ m⁻³ and electron temperature ∼8 eV is produced. The density and temperature during the RF pulse are measured by sets of Langmuir probes, located toroidally, on either side of the antenna. H_α signals are also monitored to detect ionization. An estimate of density and temperature based on simple theoretical calculation agrees well with our experimental measurements. The plasma produced by the above mechanism is further used to characterize the ECR-assisted low voltage Ohmic start-up discharges. During this part of the experiments, Ohmic plasma is formed using capacitor banks. The plasma loop voltage is gradually decreased, till the discharge ceases to form. The same is repeated in the presence of ECR-formed plasma (RF pre-ionization), formed 10 ms prior to the loop voltage. We have observed that (with LHCD-induced) ECR-assisted Ohmic start-up discharges is reliably and repeatedly obtained with reduced loop voltage requirement and breakdown time decreases substantially. The current ramp-up rates also decrease with reduced loop voltage operation. These studies established that ECR plasma formed with LHCD system exhibits similar characteristics as reported earlier by dedicated ECR systems. This experiment also addresses the issue of whether ECR plasma formed with grill antenna exhibits similar behavior as that formed by single waveguide ECR antenna. Our experimental observations suggest that the characteristics of (LHCD system-induced) ECR-assisted Ohmic start-up discharges show similar properties, reported earlier with normal ECR-assisted Ohmic start-up discharges and hence LHCD system may be used as ECR system at reduced toroidal magnetic field for other applications like wall conditioning.      

EAST 电子回旋共振加热效果的数值模拟和分析

为了给EAST 电子回旋共振加热物理实验提供理论依据和模拟预测,从电子热输运方程出发,运用 CRONOS 输运程序对不同等离子体和波参数下,电子回旋加热效果进行了数值模拟计算。给出不同电子回旋波功率、入射角、电子密度和纵场等参数对电子回旋加热效果的影响,预测在不同参数下,电子温度、等离子体总内能和能量约束时间的变化,分析了其原因,并与实验结果进行了初步的比较。     

电子回旋共振微波等离子体刻蚀α:CH薄膜的工艺

为了刻蚀出图形完整、侧壁陡直、失真度小的α:CH薄膜微器件,研究了有铝和无铝掩膜、气体流量比、工作气压对刻蚀速率的影响,并对纯氧等离子体刻蚀稳定性进行了研究。研究结果表明：在相同条件下,刻蚀速率随刻蚀时间变化不大;a:CH薄膜上有铝和无铝掩膜时,刻蚀速率相同;流量一定时,刻蚀速率随氩气和氧气体积比的增大而降低,当用纯氩气时,几乎没刻蚀作用;刻蚀速率随工作气压的增大而降低。实验中,得到最佳刻蚀条件是：纯氧气,流量4 mL·s-1,工作气压9.9×10-2 Pa,微波源电流80 mA,偏压-90 V。     

材料表面处理用强流电子回旋共振离子源

介绍一台2.45 GHz永磁强流电子回旋共振离子源,其外径160mm,高90 mm,放电室直径70 mm,高50 mm。微波馈入采用介质耦合方式,微波窗由一块f50 mm10 mm柱形BN和两块f30 mm10 mm的柱形陶瓷构成。离子源工作在脉冲模式下,采用三电极引出系统,最高引出电压达到100 kV,在微波输入功率300 W、进气量0.4 mL/min时,可引出峰值超过30 mA的氮离子束,在距离离子源引出孔1200 mm位置处的束流均匀区直径大于200 mm。     

电子回旋共振离子源等离子体的密度测量

 诊断电子回旋共振离子源等离子体的传统方法是采用传统的单探针无发射时测量伏安曲线,并根据曲线的拐点由理论公式计算出的等离子体密度。本文设计并研制了等离子体密度的测量装置。采用单根朗缪尔探针（该探针可以用来发射电子）测量等离子体的伏安特性。在探针有发射和无发射两种状态下测量得到两条伏安曲线,根据这两条曲线的"分叉点"得到等离子体电位,然后根据该电位直接由计算机计算出电子温度、电子密度。采用该新方法,测量得到的等离子体参量空间电位约为17 V,悬浮电位约为-5 V,电子温度约为4.4 eV,离子密度为1.10×10¹¹cm^-3,与传统方法计算出的等离子体1.12×10¹¹cm^-3相比,两者相差仅1.8％,但新方法效率和精度更高。     

Effects of time delay on stochastic resonance of a periodically driven linear system with multiplicative and periodically modulated additive white noises

Stochastic resonance (SR) of a periodically driven time-delayed linear system with multiplicative white noise and periodically modulated additive white noise is investigated. In the condition of small delay time, an approximate analytical expression of output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is obtained. The analytical results indicate that (1) there exists a resonance peak in the curve for SNR versus time delay; (2) the time delay will suspend the SR dramatically for SNR versus other parameters of the system, such as noise intensity, correlation intensity, and signal frequency, once a certain value is reached, the SR phenomenon disappears.     

快脉冲下有机玻璃击穿特性实验

基于CKP1000脉冲源建立了实验平台,实验获得了单次脉冲、不同脉宽、均匀电场下有机玻璃的击穿场强和击穿时延,对有机玻璃的击穿过程进行了分析。实验脉冲的幅值约为230 kV,前沿760~960 ps,脉宽2.3~4.0 ns（FWHM）,试样的平均厚度为1.1 mm。实验结果表明,随着脉冲宽度从2.3 ns增加至4.0 ns,有机玻璃的平均击穿场强从301 kV/mm降至276 kV/mm,平均击穿时延则基本保持不变,其中前沿760 ps,脉宽约2.3 ns时对应击穿时延的分散性增大。     

微型电子回旋共振离子推力器离子源结构优化实验研究

微型电子回旋共振(ECR)离子推力器可满足微小航天器空间探测的推进需求. 为此, 本文开展直径20 mm的微型ECR离子源结构优化实验研究. 根据放电室内静磁场和ECR谐振区的分布特点, 研究不同微波耦合输入位置对离子源性能的影响, 结果表明环形天线处在高于ECR谐振强度的强磁场区域时, 微波与等离子体实现无损耦合, 电子共振加热效果显著, 引出离子束流较大. 根据放电室电磁截止特性, 结合微波电场计算, 研究放电容积对离子源性能的影响, 实验表明过长或过短的腔体长度会导致引出离子束流下降甚至等离子体熄灭. 经优化后离子源性能测试表明, 在入射微波功率2.1 W、氩气流量14.9 μg/s下, 可引出离子束流5.4 mA, 气体放电损耗和利用率分别为389 W/A和15%.     

Fokker-planck study of tokamak electron cyclotron resonance heating

A Fokker－Planck study is carried out for tokamak electron cyclotron resonance heating by writing the quasi-linear diffusion operator into a form adaptive to the collision operator and considering the wave absorption characteristics of both the O-mode and the X-mode in different magnetic surfaces. Though the Fokker－Planck code is non-relativistic in nature, however, if the relativistic resonance condition for the nearly perpendicularly propagating waves is treated suitably, we can obtain correct results. The energy loss mechanism through anomalous transport is also modelled using a suitable loss term. In the heating phase, the electron distribution deviates from the Maxwellian distribution substantially, which leads to non-linear absorption characteristics. The wave damping rate is non-linear and changes with time. The electron pressure is usually anisotropic under different conditions: p_{e⊥}/p_{e‖}>2 for different D_0 and τ_e.     

Far-infrared cyclotron resonance study of neutral impurity scattering in GaAs

Far-infrared laser cyclotron resonance with the help of photoexcitation enables us to separate the electron-neutral donor and electron-neutral acceptor scattering rates in GaAs. Allowing for the complication due to the coexistence of donors and acceptors, inaccuracy due to unknown contribution of phonon scatterings etc., one finds that the electron-neutral donor scattering cross-section is 2.9×10^–11 cm² at 4.2 K, that is 23 times as large as the electron-acceptor scattering cross-section.     

托卡马克等离子体不同运行模式下的电子回旋波电流驱动

在给定等离子体密度分布下，从电子、离子的能量方程出发，根据不同运行模式下等离子体的热传导率不同，分别求出了中心负剪切模式，常规剪切H模式和L模式下的等离子体温度分布，然后通过求解波迹方程与相对论情况下的Fokker-Planck方程，分别计算了这些模式下的电子回旋波电流驱动和波功率沉积.得到在中心负剪切下，驱动电流最大，驱动效率最高，功率沉积和电流分布区间跨度大；在常规剪切H模式下，驱动电流较小，分布区间跨度比较窄，驱动效率相对较低；在常规剪切L模式，驱动电流效率最低，分布区间跨度也非常集中. 关键词： 托卡马克 电子回旋波电流驱动 中心负剪切 常规剪切     

Si—OH基团对SiCOH低k薄膜性能的影响与控制

研究了十甲基环五硅氧烷(D5)的电子回旋共振等离子体沉积的SiCOH薄膜中Si—OH基团对介电性能和漏电流的影响.结果表明Si—OH含量的增大会导致介电常数k的增大、漏电流的降低和介电色散的增强.由于Si—OH结构的强极化补偿了薄膜密度减小带来的介电常数降低，导致总的介电常数k增大.高Si—OH含量下漏电流的降低是由于封端的Si—OH基团降低了薄膜中Si—O网络的连通概率p而导致网络电导下降的缘故.介电色散的增强与Si—OH封端结构的快极化过程有关.改变放电参数以提高电子能量，从而提高源的电离程度，使更多的Si—OH基团断裂并通过缩合反应形成Si—O—Si网络，可以进一步降低薄膜的介电常数. 关键词： SiCOH薄膜 Si—OH结构 介电性能 ECR放电等离子体     

Electron magnetic resonance and magnetooptical studies of nanoparticle-containing borate glasses

We report electron magnetic resonance (EMR) and magnetooptical studies of borate glasses of molar composition 22.5K₂O-22.5Al₂O₃-55B₂O₃ co-doped with low concentrations of Fe₂O₃ and MnO. In as-prepared samples the paramagnetic ions, as a rule, are in diluted state. However, in the case where the ratio of the iron and manganese oxides in the charge is 3/2, magnetic nanoparticles with characteristics close to those of manganese ferrite are formed already at the first stage of the glass preparation, as evidenced by both magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) and EMR. After thermal treatment all glasses show characteristic MCD and EMR spectra, attesting to the presence of magnetic nanoparticles, predominantly including iron ions. Preliminary EXAFS measurements at the Fe K-absorption edge show an emergence of nanoparticles with a structure close to MnFe₂O₄ after annealing the glasses at 560 °C.By computer simulating the EMR spectra at variable temperatures, a superparamagnetic nature of relatively broad size and shape distribution with the average diameter of ca. 3-4 nm. The characteristic temperature-dependent shift of the apparent resonance field is explained by a strong temperature dependence of the magnetic anisotropy in the nanoparticles.The formation of magnetic nanoparticles confers to the potassium-alumina-borate glasses magnetic and magneto-optical properties typical of magnetically ordered substances. At the same time, they remain transparent in a part of the visible and near infrared spectral range and display a high Faraday rotation value.     

J-TEXT相关电子回旋辐射测量系统的研制

为了更好地研究反常输运,J-TEXT发展了一套相关电子回旋辐射(CECE)系统来测量电子温度涨落。该系统采用频率去相关的结构,通过八道窄带滤波器进行频率选择,其中两道采用带宽为100MHz的定频滤波器,其余六道采用带宽为100~240MHz的钇铁石榴石(YIG)滤波器,YIG滤波器的中心频率为数字可调,增加了系统的灵活性。通过光路的优化,系统的极向分辨率最高可达2.5cm^-1。实验结果表明系统性能良好,通过互相关技术可以消除热噪声的影响得到电子温度涨落,并且观测到靠近等离子体芯部的电子温度涨落要小于靠近边缘的电子温度涨落。     

4mm回旋管用于HL-1装置的初步预电离实验

本文给出了用4mm波段回旋管在HL-1装置进行的预电离实验结果。注入功率为40kW左右。初步观察到环电压降低与击穿延迟时间减少,以及由此引起的伏秒数节约、等离子体电流增加与等离子体过程提前。并简单地描述了回旋管及其超导磁体和微波传输系统。     

Electron spin resonance studies of VO2+ in cadmium maleate dihydrate single crystals

Electron spin resonance studies were carried out on VO²⁺ in cadmium maleate dihydrate single crystals at 303 K. The spin hamiltonian parameters were evaluated. The results lead us to conclude that like Cu²⁺, VO²⁺ enters the lattice interstitially.