Volume 51, Issue 5-6, 2016

20160506-29
Development of a novel device and analysis method for characterising electron beams for welding applications
Aman Kaur, Colin Ribton, Wamadeva Balachandran

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The quality of electron beam welds depends upon a number of parameters like accelerating voltage, beam current, focus settings, vacuum level, working distance and welding speed. Even if these parameters are tightly controlled, ...  read more

20160506-28
Electron beam characterizing and its relevance for production
Clemens Liebig, Jürgen Fath, Thorsten Löwer

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Measurements of electron beam profiles always had an academic touch in the past. New standards and faster image processing make the beam characterization more and more a quality tool in production and allow transfer of beam ...  read more

20160506-27
Automation control of EBW installation by SIMATIC S7-300 PLC
Elena Kolva, Volodya Dzharov, Peter Yordanov

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In this work the automatic control of the vacuum and cooling systems, together with electron beam initiation, of the located in the IE-BAS equipment for electron beam welding, evaporation and surface modification by SIMATIC ...  read more

20160506-26
SURIYA electron beam program of Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics
Chitrlada Thongbai, Sakhorn Suphakul, Jatuporn Saisut, Liangdeng Yu, Thiraphat Vilaithong

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The Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics is an organization under the Ministry of Education aiming at promoting physics research in local Thai universities. Particle beam and plasma physics is one of the emphatic fields ...  read more

20160506-25
Multi-element cylindrical electron gun systems for focusing and controlling electron beam
Mevlut Dogan

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The electron gun plays an important role in atomic, molecular, plasma, thin film, lithography and surface physics. Different types of electron gun have been designed for producing different electron beam energies. Cylindrical ...  read more

20160506-24
EBW application for the manufacture of HEBT dipole vacuum chambers, FAIR
Aleksei M. Medvedev, Alexey M. Semenov, Yuri I. Semenov, Alexandr A. Starostenko, Mikhail M. Sizov, Aleksandr S. Tcyganov

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BINP (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia) have successfully used the electron beam welding for manufacturing of vacuum chambers for a long time. The EBW facility provides the maximum seam length of 2 ...  read more

20160506-23
Large chamber electron beam welding machine designed for joining of 3D structures
Frantisek Kolenic, Daniel Drimal, Peter Faragula, Lubos Kovac, Peter Fodrek

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This paper presents a new design of new EBW machine. Newly developed EBW machine is intended primarily for welding of massive components large power units as well as series of smaller weldments. The volume of the welding chamber ...  read more

20160506-22
Automated wide-aperture plasma cathode electron source with beam extraction into the atmosphere
Maxim S. Vorobyov, Vladimir V. Denisov, Nikolay N. Koval, Stepan A. Sulakshin, Vladimir V. Shugurov, Vladislav V. Yakovlev

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The paper presents an automated wide-aperture (750×150 mm) plasma cathode electron source based on a low-pressure arc with grid stabilization of the plasma emission boundary and beam extraction into the atmosphere or high-pressure ...  read more

20160506-21
Non-vacuum electron beam apparatus based on plasma emitter
Alexander Aksenov, Sergey Kornilov, Maxim Motorin, Nikolay Rempe, Dmitriy Shashev, Stanislav Shidlovskiy

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The paper is devoted to non-vacuum electron beam apparatus based on plasma emitter. The developed apparatus is intended to generate electron beams of energy up to 120 keV, current up to 200 mA and accelerating gap pressure ...  read more

20160506-20
Design of electron guns using a bespoke genetic algorithm
Colin Ribton, Sofia del Pozo, Wamadeva Balachandran, David Ryan Smith

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Electron beams are used in many different industrial, medical and scientific applications. Each area has many specific requirements that can only be met with bespoke gun designs producing beams with the required intensity, ...  read more