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Pisma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2021 Volume 47, Issue 10, Pages 38–41 (Mi pjtf4789)

This article is cited in 13 papers

Dynamic power control of a submillisecond pulsed megawatt electron beam in a source with a plasma cathode

M. S. Vorobyov, P. V. Moskvin, V. I. Shin, N. N. Koval', K. Ashurova, S. Yu. Doroshkevich, V. N. Devyatkov, M. S. Torba, V. A. Levanisov

Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk

Abstract: The paper describes a method for a controlled change in the power of an electron beam during a pulse of submillisecond duration, using a source “SOLO” with a plasma cathode. The beam power is controlled by changing the amplitude of the beam current with a corresponding change in the concentration of the emission plasma. This control method allows generating submillisecond beams of variable power (up to 10 MW at a maximum rate of change of no more than 0.5 MW/$\mu$s), which can be used for processing various metallic materials in order to change the functional properties of their surface with the ability to control the rate of input of beam energy into the surface of these materials.

Keywords: arc discharge, plasma cathode, electron source, electron beam, beam power control.

Received: 28.01.2021
Revised: 11.02.2021
Accepted: 24.02.2021

DOI: 10.21883/PJTF.2021.10.50972.18719


 English version:
Technical Physics Letters, 2021, 47:7, 528–531

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