Planar MEMS Van de Graaff Generator

Van de Graaff Generator

In this work it was developed a Van de Graaff generator that we design and built and that is intended to be used in secondary schools for teaching basic principles of electrostatics, electromagnetic as well as a number of other applications. Today many schools laboratories and museums use this kind of generator for electrostatic demonstrations. Electrostatics was first noticed by the Greek phil...

Cross-sectional Presentation and Basic Operational Principles of 3MV Van de Graaff Accelerator at Atomic Energy Centre, Dhaka

In 1964, a positive ion horizontal type Van de Graaff accelerator (KN3000) was installed at Atomic Energy Center, Dhaka (AECD). This accelerator was manufactured by the High Voltage Engineering Corporation, Burlington, Mass., USA. Van de Graaff accelerator consists of a number of operating parts related each other. This accelerator can produce and accelerate 3 MeV proton beam using Hydrogen, He...

Effects of some salts on the germicidal action of high voltage cathode rays towards Micrococcus pyogenes var. aureus.

The apparatus used to supply the cathode radiation was a high voltage electrostatic generator of the Van de Graaff type (Trump and Van de Graaff, 1948; Proctor and Goldblith, 1951), which was operated at a constant potential of about 2.8 megavolts and with a beam current of 2.5 microamperes. A dose of 10,000 rep was delivered in about 1 sec. The salts used were of the reagent or cp grade. The o...

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Neutrons and Neutron Generators

This article was originally intended as a brief introduction to the article by Richard Hull on the Farnsworth/Hirsch “fusor.” However, as there has been some interest by a number of subscribers in neutron generators, I decided to provide a somewhat more lengthy tutorial on the reactions that produce neutrons, some practical applications of neutrons, and a few of the various types of devices tha...