Development and preliminary results of radio frequency ion source

Yahong Xie; Chundong Hu; Caichao Jiang; Yuqian Chen; Yumin Gu; Renxue Su; Yuanlai Xie; Zhimin Liu

doi:10.1063/1.4931786

Development and preliminary results of radio frequency ion source

Rev Sci Instrum. 2016 Feb;87(2):02B302. doi: 10.1063/1.4931786.

Authors

Yahong Xie¹, Chundong Hu¹, Caichao Jiang¹, Yuqian Chen¹, Yumin Gu¹, Renxue Su¹, Yuanlai Xie¹, Zhimin Liu¹

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China.

PMID: 26932030
DOI: 10.1063/1.4931786

Abstract

A radio frequency (RF) ion source was designed and developed for neutral beam injector. A RF driver test bed was used with a RF generator with maximum power of 25 kW with 1 MHz frequency and a matching box. In order to study the characteristic of RF plasma generation, the capacitance in the matching box was adjusted with different cases. The results show that lower capacitance will better the stability of the plasma with higher RF power. In the future, new RF coils and matching box will be developed for plasma generators with higher RF power of 50 kW.