{"title":"Heat transfer in beam optics analyzer","authors":"T. Bui, L. Ives, M. Read","doi":"10.1109/IRMMW-THZ.2011.6104992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRMMW-THZ.2011.6104992","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will describe the new capability in BOA, the heat transfer integration with particle simulations. It will discuss implemented techniques to smooth the wall power density field generated by electron energy. It will explain the finite element method with adaptivity used to solve the heat equation, and provide numerical results to demonstrate the implementation.","PeriodicalId":221247,"journal":{"name":"2011 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128022165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An implicit maxwell solver","authors":"A. Christlieb, Lee VanGroingen, B. Ong","doi":"10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5992902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5992902","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we present progress towards the develop of a Lagrangian method which can be implemented as a semi-implicit or a fully implicit scheme for the Vlasov Maxwell system aimed at bridging the time scale gap between electron plasma oscillations and the speed of light. At the heart of the proposed method is the development of an implicit Maxwell solver that recovers the Darwin limit of electromagnetics as c →∞. The proposed implicit Maxwell solver differs from others in that the method will first discretize the time operator and then invert the resulting semi-discreet wave operator using a free space Greens function. We refer to the approach of first discretizing in time as the Method of Lines Transpose (MOLT), but this work departs from other MOLt methods in that we work directly with high order time derivatives. A major advantage of the new method over purely using the Darwin limit is that the new method can incorporate dielectric layers, which is not possible if the strict Darwin limit is used.","PeriodicalId":221247,"journal":{"name":"2011 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115228123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Studies of electronegative Ar/O2 discharge in a constricted hollow anode plasma source using dual probe technique","authors":"M. Mujawar, S. Karkari, M. Turner","doi":"10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5992980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5992980","url":null,"abstract":"Uniform high density electronegative plasmas find important application for plasma heating by neutral beams in fusion devices and in material processing. In this work we present a constricted hollow anode plasma source (CHAPS) for the investigation of electronegative Ar/O2 discharge. The source consists of a series of equidistant stainless steel parallel plates acting as cathode with a small stainless steel tube as the anode. The plasma comprise of highly uniform density outside the cathode plates and an intense glow near the anode1. The negative oxygen ion fraction is determined by measuring the electron density by hairpin probe and ion density using a planer Langmuir probe. The negative ion density in the bulk plasma is typically 1016 m−3 and increases monotonically as a function of pressure and power. The electronegativity of the discharge is typically close to 0.5 and remains constant with the applied power. Whereas the negative ion density in the anode region varies from 1016 m−3 to 1017 m−3 with electronegativity of 3.0 near the edge of the anodic glow and decreases to 1.0 with the distance from the anode glow.","PeriodicalId":221247,"journal":{"name":"2011 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115618607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intense ultrashort laser-Xe cluster interaction","authors":"J. Davis, T. Petrova, G. Petrov, K. Whitney","doi":"10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993260","url":null,"abstract":"The last several years have witnessed an explosion of activity involving the interaction of clusters with intense ultrashort pulse lasers. The interest in laser-cluster interaction has not been only of academic interest, but also because of the wide variety of potential applications. Clusters can be used as a compact source of X-rays, incoherent as well as coherent radiation, and fast ions capable of driving a fusion reaction in deuterium plasma. Some of the applications include EUV lithography, EUV and X-ray microscopy, X-ray tomography and a variety of applications in biology and material sciences. In this talk a model of laser-cluster interaction dynamics is presented that describes the process of amplification from the incident laser pulse to the final gain calculations. The focus of this research is on the feasibility of creating population inversions and gain in some of the inner shell hole state transitions in highly ionized Xe. The model couples a molecular dynamics treatment of the explosively-driven cluster expansion to a comprehensive multiphoton-radiative ionization model including single- and double-hole state production within the Co-and Fe-like ionization stages of Xe. The hole state dynamics is self-consistently coupled to the valence-state collisional-radiative dynamics of the Ni-, Co-, and Fe-like ionization stages of xenon. In addition, the model includes tunneling ionization rates that confirm the initial condition assumption that Ni-like ground states are created almost instantaneously, the creation of which is needed to support the interpretations of the measured x-ray data. With the use of tunneling ionization rates, all of the N-shell, n=4 electrons are striped from a xenon atom in less than a femtosecond at laser intensities larger than 1019W/cm2. Thus, our calculations do not support the initial experimental data interpretations in which the measured gains have been associated with double holes in more highly ionized stages of xenon (Xe32+, Xe34+, Xe35+, and Xe37+).","PeriodicalId":221247,"journal":{"name":"2011 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116875769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radar cross section simulation of metal cone covered with plasma","authors":"She Shou, M. Chung","doi":"10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993223","url":null,"abstract":"Plasma is known to absorb electromagnetic waves with frequencies below characteristic plasma frequency ωp, and attenuate those with higher frequencies. The absorption capability is proportional to the square root of plasma density, and its effect can be measured in term of its radar cross section (RCS). Such phenomena appear naturally on reentry vehicle which causes radio blackout. Recently investigations on intentionally generated atmospheric or low pressure plasma in front of projectile to reduce its RCS and achieve low probability of interception (LPI) are of interests. We simulate the RCS of a near 20 degree metal cone, and compared it with the one covered by a ball shape plasma in front of it. The results indicated the RCS dependence with frequency is changed, and the RCS decreases at the bore sight direction when the incoming radar signal is below ωp, but may become higher when frequency is higher than ωp. The shape of the plasma is as important as the density in absorption capability. The results imply plasma cloaking is theoretically effective.","PeriodicalId":221247,"journal":{"name":"2011 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117142292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Suzuki-Vidal, S. Lebedev, G. Swadling, M. Bocchi, P. de Grouchy, G. Burdiak, S. Bland, G. Hall, A. Harvey-Thompson, E. Khoory, L. Pickworth, J. Skidmore, J. Chittenden, M. Krishnan, K. Wilson-Elliott, R. Madden, Andrea Ciardi
{"title":"Hydrodynamic and magnetically driven jets on the MAGPIE generator","authors":"F. Suzuki-Vidal, S. Lebedev, G. Swadling, M. Bocchi, P. de Grouchy, G. Burdiak, S. Bland, G. Hall, A. Harvey-Thompson, E. Khoory, L. Pickworth, J. Skidmore, J. Chittenden, M. Krishnan, K. Wilson-Elliott, R. Madden, Andrea Ciardi","doi":"10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993398","url":null,"abstract":"The formation of highly supersonic, radiatively cooled plasma jets with applications to laboratory astrophysics has been an active area of research on the MAGPIE generator. Two experimental arrangements, radial wire arrays1 and radial foils2, can produce plasma flows with similar dimensionless numbers to those encountered in protostellar jets. In radial wire arrays, a magnetically driven jet on the axis of a cavity evolves into a “clumpy” outflow due to the formation of current-driven instabilities, which could be relevant to the spatial and temporal variability of features observed in protostellar jets. In radial foils, a hydrodynamic jet interacts with an argon ambient injected above the foil using a supersonic gas nozzle. The results are characterized by the formation of several shock features, opening the possibility of studying jet-ambient interactions in the laboratory. Experimental results from different diagnostics including laser probing and self-emission of protons will be presented. Theses results will be compared with first 3-D MHD simulations using the Gorgon code.","PeriodicalId":221247,"journal":{"name":"2011 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125950446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Second harmonic gyrotron based on a 12 T superconducting magnet","authors":"A. Fliflet, S. Gold","doi":"10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993067","url":null,"abstract":"Near-THz gyrotrons are of interest for applications such as remote sensing, materials processing, and dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) applications. We are setting up a gyrotron test-bed based on a Cryomagnetics 12-T cryogen-free, 3-inch warm-bore, superconducting magnet to investigate second- and higher-harmonic gyrotrons operating at frequencies up to 1 THz. A Varian VUW-8010 triode electron gun originally designed for a 35 GHz gyrotron and driven by a hard-tube modulator will be used initially. The cathode radius is 7 mm and the gun can be operated at voltages up to 70-keV. Adiabatic scaling laws have been used to determine the approximate parameters of the gyrating electron beam that can be produced by this gun in the axial magnetic field profile of the 12-T magnet. The first experiments will operate at the second harmonic at frequencies up to 600 GHz and powers in the kilowatt range. A cavity has been designed with an interaction length of about 1 cm and a Q of 8400. Operating modes of interest include the TE18,2 and the TE57 modes. A Vlasov-type output coupler has been designed using geometric optics. Design calculations and the status of the experiment will be discussed.","PeriodicalId":221247,"journal":{"name":"2011 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116034571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. LaHaye, B. Verhoff, S. S. Harilal, A. Hassanein
{"title":"Crater formation and signal intensity in nano- and femto-second laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry","authors":"N. LaHaye, B. Verhoff, S. S. Harilal, A. Hassanein","doi":"10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993264","url":null,"abstract":"Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is a widely used analytical technique and produces highly accurate results. One of the main disadvantages of the technique, however, is the necessity of solid sample preparation into a solution; this is remedied by the use of laser ablation (LA) for direct solid sampling. LA is the process of delivering energy to a sample via a laser and, consequently, removing part of the sample and forming a small crater on the surface of the sample. Currently there exist several issues in LA sample introduction to ICP-MS commonly called ‘elemental fractionation’. A better understanding of fundamental laser ablation mechanisms and particle generation during LA process are necessary in order to efficiently couple the laser beam into the sample, ablate a reproducible quantity of mass, minimize the plasma shielding and fractionation, and control and optimize ablated particle transport.","PeriodicalId":221247,"journal":{"name":"2011 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science","volume":"190 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116382218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis of sulfonated copolymers of acrylamide by plasma-initiated copolymerization using microwave plasma","authors":"F. Ghomashi, S. Kooshki, B. Shokri","doi":"10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993388","url":null,"abstract":"The copolymers of acrylamide (AM) and 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid (AMPS) were obtained by plasma-initiated copolymerization in water solution. The effects of plasma parameters include discharge time and discharge power on the intrinsic viscosity ([η]) of synthesized copolymers were studied. The copolymers were characterized by proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-NMR) and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) methods. The thermal behaviour of copolymers was also investigated by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The results of [η] measurements as function of discharge power indicated an optimum of 27.12 dl/g at 150W of discharge power and after that [η] started to decrease. Also the measurements of [η] for different discharge time were carried out and showed an optimum of 26.03 dl/g at 30s of discharge time. The TG data showed two stages of the weight loss which the first one occurred between 270°C and 330°C, with a weight loss about 40%, and the second one happened between 350°C and 460°C, with a weight loss about 25%, respectively. The presented results show that the produced copolymers are suitable for application in enhanced oil recovery process.","PeriodicalId":221247,"journal":{"name":"2011 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122513585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electrical modeling of strongly-coupled microstrip resonator arrays for microplasma generation","authors":"A. Hoskinson, C. Wu, J. Hopwood","doi":"10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993185","url":null,"abstract":"Arrays of microstrip resonators have recently been shown to be useful for generating linear arrays of microplasmas1. Such arrays show promise for deposition of thin films and ozone generation. Power is shared between the resonators via resonant coupling, allowing a single power input port for the entire array.","PeriodicalId":221247,"journal":{"name":"2011 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science","volume":"201 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123025050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}