In the paper, the material science experiments, carried out recently using the Bio-Nano electron cyclotron resonance ion source (ECRIS) at Toyo University, are reported. We have investigated several methods to synthesize endohedral C60 using ion-ion and ion-molecule collision reaction in the ECRIS. Because of the simplicity of the configuration, we can install a large choice of additional equip...

A 1 MW� 2 msec pulse of rf power at the ion cyclotron frequency (2.6 MHz) has been used to heat the ions from < 1 eV to 350 eV in a toroidal octupole device. The ion temperature is limited by charge exchange loss and agrees quantitatively with theoretical predictions. No parametric decay waves, enhanced diffusion, or other deleterious effects except for a high neutral re­ flux are observed to a...

FAR-TECH, Inc. is developing a hybrid, quasi-three dimensional (Quasi-3D) model to simulate charge breeding of a test 1+ or 2+ ion beam in an electron cyclotron resonance ion source (ECRIS). The model is a combination of three dimensional (3D) mapping of the plasma background calculated by a 1D Generalised ECRIS Model (GEM-1D) [1] and 3D tracking of the ion trajectories with Monte Carlo Charge ...

A mechanism is proposed and evaluated for driving rotation in tokamak plasmas by minority ioncyclotron heating, even though this process introduces negligible angular momentum. The mechanism has two elements: First, angular momentum transport is governed by a diffusion equation with a non-slip boundary condition at the sepatratrix. Second, Monte-Carlo calculations show that energized particles ...

Applying an inverted voltage to the "sidekick" electrodes during ion cyclotron resonance detection improves both Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectral signal-to-noise ratio (at fixed resolving power) and resolving power (at fixed signal-to-noise ratio). The time-domain signal duration increases by up to a factor of 2. The method has been applied to 7-T FT-ICR MS of el...

The Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has revealed strong kinetic anisotropies and extremely large perpendicular temperatures of heavy ions in the extended solar corona. These observations have revived interest in the idea that the high-speed solar wind is heated and accelerated by the dissipation of ion cyclotron resonant Alfvén wa...

Fundamental studies of excitation and non-linear evolution kinetic instabilities strongly nonequlibrium hot plasmas confined in open magnetic traps suggest new opportunities for fine-tuning conventional electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion sources. These devices are widely used the production particle beams high charge state ions. Operating source controlled turbulence regime allows increasin...

This review offers an introduction to the principles and generic applications of FT-ICR mass spectrometry, directed to readers with no prior experience with the technique. We are able to explain the fundamental FT-ICR phenomena from a simplified theoretical treatment of ion behavior in idealized magnetic and electric fields. The effects of trapping voltage, trap size and shape, and other nonide...

Cyclotron modes of a non-neutral Mg ion plasma were studied in a long cylindrical PenningMalmberg trap. Several modes with angular dependence exp(iZ@, 12 1, are observed near the cyclotron frequencies of the various Mg ions. The I= 1 modes for the majority species are downshifted from the cyclotron frequencies, with downshifts as large as four times the diocotron frequency. These large shifts a...