scholarly journals Studies of the helicon plasma source with inhomogeneous magnetic field

Author(s):  
I. V. Shikhvotsev ◽  
V. I. Davydenko ◽  
A. A. Ivanov ◽  
I. A. Kotelnikov ◽  
E. I. Kuzmin ◽  
...  
2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Magarotto ◽  
D. Melazzi ◽  
D. Pavarin

We have numerically studied how an actual confinement magnetostatic field affects power deposition in a helicon source. We have solved the wave propagation by means of two electromagnetic solvers, namely: (i) plaSma Padova Inhomogeneous Radial Electromagnetic solver (SPIREs), a mono-dimensional finite-difference frequency-domain code, and (ii) Advanced coDe for Anisotropic Media and ANTennas (ADAMANT), a full-wave three-dimensional tool based on the method of moments. We have computed the deposited power spectrum with SPIREs, power deposition profile with ADAMANT and the antenna impedance with both codes. First we have verified the numerical accuracy of both SPIREs and ADAMNT. Then, we have analysed two configurations of magnetostatic field, namely produced by Maxwell coils, and Helmholtz coils. For each configuration we have studied three cases: (i) low density $n=10^{17}~\text{m}^{-3}$ and low magnetic field $B_{0}=250$  G; (ii) medium density $n=10^{18}~\text{m}^{-3}$ and medium magnetic field $B_{0}=500$  G; (iii) high density $n=10^{19}~\text{m}^{-3}$ and high magnetic field $B_{0}=1000$  G. We have found that the Maxwell coil configuration does not produces significant changes in the deposited power phenomenon with respect to a perfectly uniform and axial magnetostatic field. While the Helmholtz coil configuration can lead to a power spectrum peaked near the axis of the discharge.


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 123519
Author(s):  
Chenwen Wang ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Meng Sun ◽  
Tianliang Zhang ◽  
Qiang Chen ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-149
Author(s):  
D.S. Aksyonov ◽  
V.V. Vasyliev ◽  
A.A. Luchaninov ◽  
V.E. Strel’nitskij

The vacuum-arc plasma source with a rectilinear filter has been optimized for deposition of coatings on large size products. The calculations of the magnetic configuration options of the system were performed by using the FEMM program. New design of the output coil of the filter allows increase by 1.3 times the efficiency of plasma transportation to the substrate with a diameter of 300 mm. Plasma instabilities are proposed for the explanation the features of the motion of vacuum-arc plasma through the regions of an inhomogeneous magnetic field in a rectilinear macroparticles filter with a "magnetic island".


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey Chernogor ◽  
Igor Blinkov ◽  
Alexey Volkhonskiy

The flow, energy distribution and concentrations profiles of Ti ions in cathodic arc are studied by test particle Monte Carlo simulations with considering the mass transfer through the macro-particles filters with inhomogeneous magnetic field. The loss of ions due to their deposition on filter walls was calculated as a function of electric current and number of turns in the coil. The magnetic field concentrator that arises in the bending region of the filters leads to increase the loss of the ions component of cathodic arc. The ions loss up to 80 % of their energy resulted by the paired elastic collisions which correspond to the experimental results. The ion fluxes arriving at the surface of the substrates during planetary rotating of them opposite the evaporators mounted to each other at an angle of 120° characterized by the wide range of mutual overlapping.


2021 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan A. Ivanov ◽  
V. O. Ustyuzhanin ◽  
A. V. Sudnikov ◽  
A. Inzhevatkina

A plasma gun for forming a plasma stream in the open magnetic mirror trap with additional helicoidal field SMOLA is described. The plasma gun is an axisymmetric system with a planar circular hot cathode based on lanthanum hexaboride and a hollow copper anode. The two planar coils are located around the plasma source and create a magnetic field of up to 200 mT. The magnetic field forms the magnetron configuration of the discharge and provides a radial electric insulation. The source typically operates with a discharge current of up to 350 A in hydrogen. Plasma parameters in the SMOLA device are Ti ~ 5 eV, Te ~ 5–40 eV and ni ~ (0.1–1)  × 1019 m−3. Helium plasma can also be created. The plasma properties depend on the whole group of initial technical parameters: the cathode temperature, the feeding gas flow, the anode-cathode supply voltage and the magnitude of the cathode magnetic insulation.


1967 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 1481-1495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myer Bloom ◽  
Eric Enga ◽  
Hin Lew

A successful transverse Stern–Gerlach experiment has been performed, using a beam of neutral potassium atoms and an inhomogeneous time-dependent magnetic field of the form[Formula: see text]A classical analysis of the Stern–Gerlach experiment is given for a rotating inhomogeneous magnetic field. In general, when space quantization is achieved, the spins are quantized along the effective magnetic field in the reference frame rotating with angular velocity ω about the z axis. For ω = 0, the direction of quantization is the z axis (conventional Stern–Gerlach experiment), while at resonance (ω = −γH0) the direction of quantization is the x axis in the rotating reference frame (transverse Stern–Gerlach experiment). The experiment, which was performed at 7.2 Mc, is described in detail.


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