Lithium plasma emitter for collisionless magnetized plasma experiment

This paper presents a newly developed lithium plasma emitter, which can provide quiescent and low-temperature collisionless conditions for magnetized plasma experiments. This plasma emitter generates thermal emissions of lithium ions and electrons to produce a lithium plasma. Lithium type beta-eucry...

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Veröffentlicht in:Review of scientific instruments 2011-09, Vol.82 (9), p.093502-093502-5
Hauptverfasser: Kawamori, Eiichirou, Lee, Jyun-Yi, Huang, Yi-Jue, Syugu, Wun-Jheng, Song, Sung-Xuang, Hsieh, Tung-Yuan, Cheng, C. Z.
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Zusammenfassung:This paper presents a newly developed lithium plasma emitter, which can provide quiescent and low-temperature collisionless conditions for magnetized plasma experiments. This plasma emitter generates thermal emissions of lithium ions and electrons to produce a lithium plasma. Lithium type beta-eucryptite and lanthanum-hexaboride (LaB 6 ) powders were mixed and directly heated with a tungsten heater to synthesize ion and electron emissions. As a result, a plasma with a diameter of ∼15 cm was obtained in a magnetic mirror configuration. The typical range of electron density was 10 12 -10 13 m −3 and that of electron temperature was 0.1-0.8 eV with the emitter operation temperature of about 1500 K. The amplitude fluctuations for the plasma density were lower than 1%.
ISSN:0034-6748
1089-7623
DOI:10.1063/1.3632981