ANALYSIS OF THE NITROGEN ION-BEAM GENERATED IN A LOW-ENERGY PLASMA-FOCUS DEVICE BY A FARADAY CUP OPERATING IN THE SECONDARY-ELECTRON EMISSION MODE

Authors
KELLY H LEPONE A MARQUEZ A SADOWSKI MJ BARANOWSKI J SKLADNIKSADOWSKA E
Citation
H. Kelly et al., ANALYSIS OF THE NITROGEN ION-BEAM GENERATED IN A LOW-ENERGY PLASMA-FOCUS DEVICE BY A FARADAY CUP OPERATING IN THE SECONDARY-ELECTRON EMISSION MODE, IEEE transactions on plasma science, 26(1), 1998, pp. 113-117
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
Journal title
IEEE transactions on plasma science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00933813
Volume
26
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
113 - 117
Database
ISI
SICI code
0093-3813(1998)26:1<113:AOTNIG>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
The energy distribution and flux of fast nitrogen particles generated in a Mather-type plasma focus device operating at 0.4 Torr of N-2 pres sure is reported, A Faraday Cup operating in the secondary electron em ission mode was employed, To determine the total number of beam partic les, multiple scattering of the ions was taken into account. It has be en possible to register the ion energy up to a lower kinetic energy th reshold of approximate to 50 keV, which is a value much lower than tha t obtained with a Thomson spectrometer in a previous work.