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Planar Magnetron with Heated Boron Target for In Situ Investigation of Boron Film Deposition
Planar magnetrons with a heated crystalline boron target are promising for depositing boron coatings intended for a wide range of scientific and industrial applications. The promotion of this type of magnetron...
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Low-Current Discharge in a Flow of Atmospheric-Pressure Argon Under the Formation of Metal Atoms: Electric and Optical Characteristics
The paper presents the results of a study of the current-voltage characteristics and optical emission spectra of an atmospheric pressure pulsed discharge plasma at a frequency of several tens of kilohertz and ...
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Modification of the Material Surface by Boron Ions Based on Vacuum Arc Discharge Systems and a Planar Magnetron
The principle of operation and the characteristics of the experimental equipment intended for the generation of boron ion plasma and beams are presented. The equipment comprises a vacuum arc source of boron io...
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Plasma Source for Bipolar Electron-Optical System
The paper presents the experimental study of pulsed plasma source with hollow cathode intended for bipolar electron-optical system with open-boundary plasma. The proposed configuration of the plasma source inc...
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Generation of Boron Ions for Beam and Plasma Technologies
The urgency of the study of generation of beams and plasmas containing boron ions is caused by their application in ion-beam and plasma technologies of modification of the surface properties of not only semico...
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Effect of the Enhanced Breakdown Strength in Plasma-Filled Optical System of Electron Beam Formation
The article presents recent results of the dramatically enhanced electric breakdown strength observed in the accelerating gap of a plasma-filled optical system for the formation and focusing of a wide-aperture...
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Generation of High Charge State Metal Ions in an Arc Plasma
Generation of high charge state metal ions in arc plasma is investigated and methods of elevation of the average ion charge state are analyzed. To realize multiple ionization of the arc plasma, a strong magnet...
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Producing of Gas and Metal Ion Beams with Vacuum Arc Ion Sources
The present paper deals with peculiarities of vacuum arc ion sources employed to generate beams of gas and metal ions with the controllable ratio of ions of each type in a beam. The design and parameters of th...
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Underlying Physics of E-MEVVA Operation
Recently substantial enhancement of high ion charge states was clearly observed in both the HCEI and ITEP E-MEVVA ion sources. These experimental setups have two different methods of measuring the ion charge s...
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High Current Electron Sources and Accelerators with Plasma Emitters
The design and main features of vacuum arc plasma cathode electron guns for different application as well as the status of experimental research in recent years are discussed. The attractiveness of this kind e...
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Emission Methods of Experimental Investigations of Ion Velocities in Vacuum Arc Plasmas
This paper is devoted to an investigation of the directional velocities of the ions generated in cathode spots of vacuum arc discharges. Using emission methods of studying the processes in a vacuum arc dischar...
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Submicrosecond Pulsed Electron Beam Formation in Electron Sources and Accelerators with Plasma Emitters
The most popular methods for submicrosecond electron beam generation and physical processes underlying electron extraction from plasma in plasma emitters are considered. Electron sources and accelerators devel...
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Generation of Multiply Charged Ions in the Plasma of a Vacuum Arc Discharge
This paper presents the results of a study on the generation of multiply charged ions in the plasma of a vacuum arc discharge. The average charge of ions in the plasma is increased by using a strong magnetic f...
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Study of directed ion velocities in a vacuum arc by an emission method
Directed ion velocities in a vacuum arc discharge plasma are measured on the basis of a study of the ion emission current response to a rapid change of arc current. It is shown that these velocities are about 106
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Plasma-emitter electron accelerators
This paper considers the physical processes associated with the extraction of electrons from the gas discharge plasma in plasma emitters where the emission boundary is stabilized with a fine grid. The ways of ...
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Time-of-flight mass spectrometry studies of an ion beam generated by the titan source
The TITAN source generates wide-aperture beams of gas and metal ions of different materials. This is achieved because of two types of cold-cathode arc discharges, which operate simultaneously in the discharge ...
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Emission properties of a plasma cathode based on a glow discharge for generating nanosecond electron beams
The emission properties of a plasma cathode based on a nanosecond pulsed glow discharge with currents of up to 200A at a pressure of 5×10−2 Pa are studied experimentally. Stable ignition and burning of the discha...
