V F Virko et al 2010 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 19 015004 doi:10.1088/0963-0252/19/1/015004
V F Virko, Yu V Virko, V M Slobodyan and K P Shamrai
Show affiliationsPlasma production and emergent ion beam formation were examined in a compact helicon plasma source with different configurations of permanent magnets. Source modification employing a cylindrical ferrite assembly (CFA) with radial magnetization was found to produce high-density plasmas over a broad pressure range, but the ion beam was generated only at sub-millitorr pressures and provided that a pressure difference was set up between the discharge and the drift chambers. The modification employing the near field of a single annular ferrite (AF) was ineffective in both dense plasma and ion beam generation. The modification employing a combination of the AF with the CFA was found to be the most efficient for ion acceleration. It generated a fast ion beam with an energy of up to 200 eV in the sub-millitorr pressure range, and could produce the accelerated ions even in the millitorr range.
52.50.Qt Plasma heating by radio-frequency fields; ICR, ICP, helicons
Issue 1 (February 2010)
Received 11 June 2009, in final form 30 September 2009
Published 20 October 2009
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