Ion physics forms the basis for numerous modern technologies and research directions such as microelectronics, material research, analytics or high-energy physics. The reason for the broad range applications of ion physics lies in the ions characteristics: -The ions possess a mass, which makes a direct energy transfer possible to the solid atoms (flexible energy transmission); -The velocity of ...

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To study the fast-ion transport in a well controlled background plasma, a 3-cm diameter rf ion gun launches a pulsed, ,300 eV ribbon shaped argon ion beam parallel to or at 15° to the magnetic field in the Large Plasma Device sLAPDd fW. Gekelman, H. Pfister, Z. Lucky, J. Bamber, D. Leneman, and J. Maggs, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 62, 2875 s1991dg at UCLA. The parallel energy of the beam is measured by...

Using a focused ion beam, we patterned epitaxial graphene on SiC into an array of graphene nanoribbons as narrow as 15 nm by optimizing the Ga(+) ion beam current, acceleration voltage, dwell time, beam center-to-center distance and ion dose. The ion dose required to completely etch away graphene on SiC was determined and compared with the Monte Carlo simulation result. In addition, a photodete...

Introduction: Computed tomography (CT) has numerous applications in clinical procedures but its main problem is its high radiation dose to the patients compared to other imaging modalities using x-ray. CT delivers approximately high doses to the nearby tissues due to the scattering effect, fan beam (beam divergence) and limited collimator efficiency. The radiation dose from multi-slice scanners...

1098-4402= In this paper the results of the experimental measurements at Berlin electron storage ring for synchrotron radiation (BESSY-II) are presented. Grow/damp measurements of the transverse coupledbunch instabilities were performed using a multibunch feedback system and a synchronized time-domain bunch motion recorder. The results of these experiments are described and explained by the bea...

We report the design and test results of a beam monitor developed for online monitoring in hadron therapy. The beam monitor uses eight silicon pixel sensors, Topmetal-II−, as the anode array. Topmetal-II− is a charge sensor designed in a CMOS 0.35 μm technology. Each Topmetal-II− sensor has 72 × 72 pixels and the pixel size is 83 × 83 μm. In our design, the beam passes through the beam monitor ...

Low cross section experiments to produce super-heavy elements have increased the demand for high intensity heavy ion beams at energies of about 5 MeV/nucleon at the 88-Inch Cyclotron at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Therefore, efforts are underway to increase the overall ion beam transmission through the axial injection line and the cyclotron. The ion beam emittance has been measur...