Generation and transport of pulsed intense electron beams of microsecond duration

Author

Engelko, Vladimir ; Mueller, Georg

Author_Institution

Efremov Insitute of Electrophys. Apparatus, St. Petersburg

fYear

2008

fDate

15-19 June 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

A review of investigations on generation and transport of pulsed intense electron beams of microsecond duration is presented. For production of the beams multipoint explosive emission cathodes are used. The cathode design allows to produce homogeneous and stable plasma layers of different geometry with an area of up to 10⁴ cm². By using the multipoint cathodes planar, cylindrical, tubular and radial electron beams were produced. Investigation of the electron beams generation, transport in vacuum and interaction with different target materials are described. Examples of microsecond intense electron beams applications are given.

Keywords

cathodes; electron beam effects; electron beams; plasma applications; plasma transport processes; cylindrical electron beams; electron beam vacuum transport; homogeneous stable plasma layer production; intense microsecond electron beams; intense pulsed electron beam generation; intense pulsed electron beam transport; multipoint explosive emission cathodes; planar electron beams; radial electron beams; tubular electron beams; Cathodes; Electron beams; Explosives; Geometry; Plasma applications; Plasma materials processing; Plasma stability; Plasma transport processes; Production; Pulse generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science, 2008. ICOPS 2008. IEEE 35th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Karlsruhe

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1929-6

Electronic_ISBN

0730-9244

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2008.4590788

Filename

4590788