Large Ion Beams: Fundamentals of Generation and Propagation - Hardcover

Forrester, A. Theodore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471625574 ISBN 13: 9780471625575

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 1988

Synopsis

A compilation and analysis of discussions of phenomena important to ion beams and high perveance ion beams. Discusses physics essential to research on ion beam generation and propagation and provides some requisite background to understanding the criteria for designing electrodes. Ion sources are categorized in terms of their configurations, and the relationships between various types of sources is developed. Covers collisionless space charge phenomena, collisionless plasmas, collisional effects and the taxonomy of high poissance beams. Chapters also treat the field of intense negative ion beams.

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From the Inside Flap

Until now, no book on ion beam research served both the fundamental needs of the student and the advanced requirements of the seasoned professional. Large Ion Beams: Fundamentals of Generation and Propagation fills this need. Large Ion Beams is both a primer for the neophyte, presenting the essential physics relative to research on ion beam generation, extraction, acceleration, deceleration, and propagation, and a valuable source of new ideas and novel ways of looking at the features of positive and negative ion sources for the advanced research worker. In this volume, the sources of ion beam generation are categorized in terms of their configuration and are analyzed more thoroughly than elsewhere, so that for the first time the relationship between the various types of ion beam sources is developed. Initially, the physics basic to the generation and preparation of high current beams is covered. Following this, a well-developed and thorough discussion of elementary space charge phenomena, including a novel approach-the momentum balance method-is presented as an aid to understanding space charge effects. Since one of the most important experimental variables in ion source construction is the cathode, this book provides thorough coverage of the fundamentals and practicalities of a wide range of cathodes appropriate for ion source applications. The final three chapters contain a tabulation and categorization of positive and negative ion sources that is more complete than in any current book. Laboratories concerned with basic space charge phenomena in a wide variety of applications will find Large Ion Beams useful for their scientists working in this field. Students of plasma physics will use this work as a ready reference for introductory steady state phenomena in plasmas and as an in-depth study of sheath phenomena.

From the Back Cover

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Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0471625574
• ISBN 13: 9780471625575
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 325