• Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.70-74
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• 2018

We fabricated an anode-type ion source driven by a charge repulsion mechanism and investigated its beam shape controlled by a Whenelt mask integrated at the front face of the source. The ion beam shape was observed to vary by changing the geometry of the Whenelt mask. As the angle of inclination of the Whenelt mask was varied from $40^{\circ}$ to $60^{\circ}$, the etched area at a thin film was reduced from 20 mm to 7.5 mm at the working distance of 286 mm, and the light transmittance through the etched surface was increased from 78% to 80%, respectively. In addition, for the step height difference, ${\Delta}$ between the inner mask and the outer mask of ${\Delta}=0$, -1 mm, and +1 mm, we observed the ion beam shape was formed to be collimated, diverged, and focused, respectively. The focal length of the focused beam was 269 mm. We approved experimentally a simple way of controlling the electric field of the ion beam by changing the geometry of the Whenelt mask such that the initial direction of the ion beam in the plasma region was manipulated effectively.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제50권8호
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• pp.419-422
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• 2001

This paper presents the principle and fabrication of a novel micro mass spectrometer and emission test of hot electron for ionization. A micro mass spectrometer consists of a micro ion source and a micro ion separator. The micro ion source consists of a hot filament and grid electrodes. Electrons emitted from a hot filament are to ionize some sample molecules. The ions are accelerated to an ion detector by an electric field. Mass can be analyzed by using the time of fight depending on the mass-to-charge ratio. The current of hot electron emission from the hot filament is measured for various input voltages.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.250.1-250.1
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• 2014

A multicusp ion source has been used widely in negative hydrogen cyclotrons mainly for radioisotope productions. The ion source is designed to have cusp geometries of magnetic field inside plasma chamber, where ions are confining and their mean lifetimes increase. The magnetic confinement produced a number of permanent magnetic poles helps to increase beam currents and reduce the emittance. Therefore optimizing the number of magnets confining more ions and increasing their mean lifetime in plasma has to be investigated in order to improve the performance of the ion source. In this work a numerical simulation of the magnetic flux density from a number of permanent magnets is carried to optimize the cusp geometries producing the highest plasma density, which is clearly indicated along the full-line cusp geometry. The effect of magnetic fields and a number of poles on the plasma structure are investigated by a computing tool. The electron confinement effect becomes stronger and the density increases with increasing the number of poles. On the contrary, the escape of electrons from the loss cone becomes more frequent as the pole number increases [1]. To understand above observation the electron and ion's trajectories along with different cusp geometries are simulated. The simulation has been shown that the optimized numbers of magnets can improve the ion density and uniformity.

• Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.47-51
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• 2018

We fabricated an anode-type ion beam source and studied its driving characteristics of the initial extraction of ions using two driving mechanisms: a diffusion phenomenon and a charge repulsion phenomenon. For specimen exposed to the ion beam in two methods, the surface impurity element was investigated by using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Upon Ar gas injection for plasma generation the ion beam source was operated for 48 hours. We found a Fe 2p peak 5.4 at. % in the initial ions by the diffusion mechanism while no indication of Fe in the ions released in the charge repulsion mechanism. As for a long operation of 200 min, the temperature of ion beam sources was measured to increase at the rate of ${\sim}0.1^{\circ}C/min$ and kept at the initial value of $27^{\circ}C$ for driving by diffusion and charge repulsion mechanism, respectively. In this study, we confirmed that the ion beam source driven by the charge repulsion mechanism was very efficient for a long operation as proved by little electrode damage and thermal stability.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.550-551
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• 2013

Large-area RF-driven ion source is being developed at Germany for the heating and current drive of ITER plasmas. Negative hydrogen (deuterium) ion sources are major components of neutral beam injection systems in future large-scale fusion experiments such as ITER and DEMO. RF ion sources for the production of positive hydrogen ions have been successfully developed at IPP (Max-Planck- Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching) for ASDEX-U and W7-AS neutral beam injection (NBI) systems. In recent, the first NBI system (NBI-1) has been developed successfully for the KSTAR. The first and second long-pulse ion sources (LPIS-1 and LPIS-2) of NBI-1 system consist of a magnetic bucket plasma generator with multi-pole cusp fields, filament heating structure, and a set of tetrode accelerators with circular apertures. There is a development plan of large-area RF ion source at KAERI to extract the positive ions, which can be used for the second NBI (NBI-2) system of KSTAR, and to extract the negative ions for future fusion devices such as ITER and K-DEMO. The large-area RF ion source consists of a driver region, including a helical antenna (6-turn copper tube with an outer diameter of 6 mm) and a discharge chamber (ceramic and/or quartz tubes with an inner diameter of 200 mm, a height of 150 mm, and a thickness of 8 mm), and an expansion region (magnetic bucket of prototype LPIS in the KAERI). RF power can be transferred up to 10 kW with a fixed frequency of 2 MHz through a matching circuit (auto- and manual-matching apparatus). Argon gas is commonly injected to the initial ignition of RF plasma discharge, and then hydrogen gas instead of argon gas is finally injected for the RF plasma sustainment. The uniformities of plasma density and electron temperature at the lowest area of expansion region (a distance of 300 mm from the driver region) are measured by using two electrostatic probes in the directions of short- and long-dimension of expansion region.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2013년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.595-596
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• 2013

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2010년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.539-540
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• 2010

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제13권9호
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• pp.587-592
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• 2003

The thin films of 316L stainless steel were made on glass and S45C substrate by Ion beam assisted deposition with reactive atmosphere of argon and nitrogen. The films were deposited at the various conditions of ion beam power and the ratios of Ar/$N_2$gas. Properties of these films were analyzed by glancing x-ray diffraction method(GXRD), AES, potentiodynamic test, and salt spray test. The results of GXRD showed that austenite phase could be appeared by $N_2$ion beam treatment and the amount of austenite phase increased with the amount of nitrogen gas. The films without plasma ion source treatment had the weak diffraction peak of ferrite phase. But under the Ar plasma ion beam treatment, the strong diffraction peaks of ferrite phase were appeared and the grain size was increased from 12 to 16 nm. Potentiodynamic polarization test and salt spray test indicated that the corrosion properties of the STS 316L films with nitrogen ion source treatment were better than bulk STS 316L steel and STS 316L films with Ar ion source treatment.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제40권10호
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• pp.967-972
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• 2003

직경 5 cm cold hollow cathode 이온원을 박막의 이온보조증착법 또는 이온보조반응법에 사용하기에 적합한 이온빔으로 넓은 면적을 균일하게 조사할 수 있는 이온원을 설계, 제작하기 위한 방안으로 연구하게 되었다. 이온원은 글로우 방전을 위한 음극과 이온화 효율의 증가를 위한 자석, 플라즈마 챔버, 그리드 전극으로 이루어진 이온광학시스템, 직류전원공급장치로 이루어진다. 전자인출전극의 구조 및 형태로 구분하여 한개의 노즐로 이루어진 (I) 형태와 복수개의 노즐로 변형된 (II) 형태로 제작하였다. 서로 다른 구조의 전자인출전극 (I)형태와 (II) 형태를 부착한 이온원에 beam profile을 측정한 결과 (I) 형태의 전자인출전극을 부착한 경우에는 이온원의 중심에서 140 $\mu\textrm{A}$/$\textrm{cm}^2$으로 측정되어 졌으며, 외곽으로 멀어질수록 급격히 전류밀도가 감소하여 균일한 영역(최대값의 90%)은 직경 5 cm로 측정되어졌다. (II) 형태로 변형되어진 이온원의 경우 중심에서 65 $\mu\textrm{A}$/$\textrm{cm}^2$으로 (I) 형태와 비교하여 상대적으로 낮은 전류밀도가 측정되었지만 외각으로 멀어졌을 경우에도 전류밀도는 완만하게 감소하여 균일한 영역은 직경 20 cm로 측정되었으며, 본 연구목적에 부합되는 특성이 측정되었다. 이온빔 균일도가 증가한 (II) 형태의 전자인출전극을 부착한 이온원으로 주입하는 아르곤 가스량의 변화, 이온광학시스템의 플라즈마 그리드 전극과 가속 그리드 전극 간격의 조절, 이온빔 에너지 변화에 따른 beam profile 및 특성을 괸찰하였다.

• Journal of Korean Vacuum Science & Technology
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2001

The paper represents the results of the development and the test of "cold cathode" ion source model with 5 cm aperture where the glow discharge is utilized for generation of electrons in the cathode of the ion source. The results of probe measurements of the ion source are represented. The integral parameters such as electron energy distribution function(EEDF), electron density and mean electron energy, discharge voltage-current characteristics, and distribution of ion beam were studied.