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Influence of discharge gap on the discharge stability in a short vacuum arc ion source
1Institute of Electronic Engineering, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang, Sichuan 621900, China. l.chen03@gmail.com
Abstract:
The influence of the discharge gap between cathode and anode on the discharge stability in a short vacuum arc (SVA) ion source is presented in this paper. Planar cathode and cylindrical hollow anode made of titanium are investigated. There is a great need in present accelerator injection research for SVA source to produce the small deviation of the ion current beam. Current research shows that increasing the short discharge gap can reduce the level of ion current deviation and ion charge deviation from 29% and 31% to 15% and 17%, respectively. A microplasma plume generation mechanism in SVA and scanning electron microscopic results can be used to explain this interesting phenomenon.
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