Note: A well-confined pulsed low-energy ion beam: Test experiments of Ar

Jie Hu; Chun-Xiao Wu; Shan Xi Tian

doi:10.1063/1.5026822

Note: A well-confined pulsed low-energy ion beam: Test experiments of Ar

Rev Sci Instrum. 2018 Jun;89(6):066104. doi: 10.1063/1.5026822.

Authors

Jie Hu¹, Chun-Xiao Wu¹, Shan Xi Tian¹

Affiliation

¹ Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.

PMID: 29960543
DOI: 10.1063/1.5026822

Abstract

Here we report a pulsed low-energy ion beam source for ion-molecule reaction study, in which the ions produced by the pulsed electron impact are confined well in the spatial size of each bunch. In contrast to the ion focusing method to reduce the transverse section of the beam, the longitudinal section in the translational direction is compressed by introducing a second pulse in the ion time-of-flight system. The test experiments for the low-energy argon ions are performed. The present beam source is ready for applications in the ion-molecule reaction dynamics experiments, in particular, in combination with the ion velocity map imaging technique.