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7230201 Apparatus and methods for controlling charged particles  
Among the embodiments of the present invention, are apparatus, systems, and methods for managing energetic charged particles emitted nearly isotropically from a fusion device. One apparatus of the...
6870498 Generation of electromagnetic radiation  
A system for generating electromagnetic radiation comprising a flux generator for generating a high intensity current and conversion means in the form of a reflex triode or a plasma focus device...
6680480 Laser accelerator produced colliding ion beams fusion device  
A fusion device consisting of two colliding ion beams, each produced by a high power, femtosecond regime, chirped pulsed amplification (CPA) laser acceleration device. The CPA laser creates an...
6667487 Radio frequency trap for containment of plasmas in antimatter propulsion systems using rotating wall electric fields  
A containment apparatus for containing a cloud of charged particles comprises a cylindrical vacuum chamber having a longitudinal axis. Within the vacuum chamber is a containment region. A magnetic...
6576916 Container for transporting antiprotons and reaction trap  
The invention provides a container for transporting antiprotons including a dewar having an evacuated cavity and a cryogenically cold wall. A plurality of thermally conductive supports are disposed...
6160263 Container for transporting antiprotons  
The invention provides a container for transporting antiprotons including a dewar having an evacuated cavity and a cryogenically cold wall. A plurality of thermally conductive supports are disposed...
5930313 Method and apparatus for transporting an intense ion beam  
A method and apparatus for transporting a positive ion beam to a distant target. An ion channel is created as a path to the target, and the beam injected into the channel at a mildly-relativistic...
5339336 High current ion ring accelerator  
An ion ring accelerator employs a pulsed magnetic field to accelerate a charge neutralized ion ring. The accelerator includes a plurality of accelerator modules arranged either in a linear or a...
5272731 Process and apparatus to increase plasma temperature in a continuous discharge fusion reactor  
The process for containing a deuterium gas plasma discharge includes providing a cylindrical zone having a cylinder axis; supplying D 2 gas to the zone axially lengthwise of the zone and...
5118950 Cluster ion synthesis and confinement in hybrid ion trap arrays  
A cluster ion synthesis process utilizing a containerless environment to grow in a succession of steps cluster ions of large mass and well defined distribution. The cluster ion growth proceeds in a...
5106570 Intense negative ion source  
A method for generating a beam of negatively charged hydrogen ions is described which comprises the steps of providing a source of metal hydride, heating the hydride to extract either atomic...
5051582 Method for the production of size, structure and composition of specific-cluster ions  
The method of producing specific cluster ions utilizing an ionization source to produce ions which are then sorted or resolved according to velocity and mass. The selected ions are passed through a...
4906896 Disk and washer linac and method of manufacture  
A coupled-cavity linear accelerator for accelerating charged particles to velocities greater than about one-third the speed of light. The accelerator includes a first tank for accelerating charged...
4899084 Particle accelerator employing transient space charge potentials  
The invention provides an accelerator for ions and charged particles. The plasma is generated and confined in a magnetic mirror field. The electrons of the plasma are heated to high temperatures. A...
4853173 Method of producing fusion reactions and apparatus for a fusion reactor  
A method of producing fusion reactions comprises the steps of bringing deuterium ions from an ion source to run in a substantially closed path for accumulation of the ions to a predetermined...
4826646 Method and apparatus for controlling charged particles  
An apparatus and method for controlling charged particles. The charged particles comprise electrons and positive ions. A magnetic field having only point cusps is used to confine injected electrons...
4793961 Method and source for producing a high concentration of positively charged molecular hydrogen or deuterium ions  
A high concentration of positive molecular ions of hydrogen or deuterium gas is extracted from a positive ion source having a short path length of extracted ions, relative to the mean free path of...
4782235 Source of ions with at least two ionization chambers, in particular for forming chemically reactive ion beams  
The ion source comprises a cathode, an intermediate electrode and an anode with two ionization chambers between these electrodes, means for producing an axial magnetic field, means for applying a...
4780647 Compact high power accelerator  
A system for providing a compact, high power particle accelerator powered by a modulated intense relativistic electron beam. In a preferred embodiment a first source develops a high power intense...
4743804 E-beam ionized channel guiding of an intense relativistic electron beam  
An IREB is guided through a curved path by ionizing a channel in a gas with electrons from a filament, and confining the electrons to the center of the path with a magnetic field extending along...
4729865 Nuclear fusion reactor  
The present invention is a nuclear fusion reactor serving to contain a totally organized tritium-deuterium plasma by guiding the self-bombarding particles in a resonating path of a particular...
4724117 Polarization of fast particle beams by collisional pumping  
Method and apparatus for highly polarizing a fast beam of particles by collisional pumping, including generating a fast beam of particles, and also generating a thick electron-spin-polarized medium...
4650631 Injection, containment and heating device for fusion plasmas  
A container device for a fusion plasma which has a beam of charged particles accelerating system feeding an ion or plasma beam into a polytron magnetic device. The polytron is formed from a...
4649273 Variable energy, high flux, ground-state atomic oxygen source  
A variable energy, high flux atomic oxygen source (10) comprising means (48) for producing a high density beam of molecules which will emit O - ions when bombarded with electrons; means (44) for...
4642206 Production of spin polarized fusion fuels  
Methods for producing large, highly nuclear spin-polarized thermonuclear fuels HD, D 2 , HT and DT in a state where they can be stored and manipulated for appreciable times at ordinary liquid...
4641031 Ion source apparatus  
An ion source apparatus comprising a bulk type thermionic cathode, which, when heated, emits thermoelectrons; an anode for causing a gas discharge in cooperation with the cathode thereby producing...
4641060 Method and apparatus using electron cyclotron heated plasma for vacuum pumping  
A method and apparatus is disclosed for producing a gas pumping plasma within an evacuated enclosure having a collimating system consisting of baffle structures and a magnetic field having a...
4639348 Recyclotron III, a recirculating plasma fusion system  
This is one of a series of nuclear fusion (vs. fission) inventions by this physicist-inventor. This invention is designed to burn the cleanest of all known fusion fuels: boron hydride (B-H, or p-...
4618470 Magnetic confinement nuclear energy generator  
A fusion reactor (10) includes a sphere (12). Structure (20) is disposed within the interior of the sphere (12) for producing a magnetic field. Structure (24, 26) is circumferentially disposed...
4617462 Polarized internal target apparatus  
A polarized internal target apparatus with a polarized gas target of improved polarization and density achieved by mixing target gas atoms with a small amount of alkali metal gas atoms, and passing...
4570103 Particle beam accelerators  
A technique for accelerating charged particles using an intense traveling electromagnetic wave such as produced by appropriate wavelength lasers. Low energy electrons injected into the focal region...
4568509 Ion beam device  
A nuclear fusion device comprising a condensed phase fuel element and accelerated ion beams which ionize and compress the fuel element and initiate nuclear fusion reactions. In one of the...
4548782 Tokamak plasma heating with intense, pulsed ion beams  
An intense, space-charge-neutralized, pulsed ion beam is used to heat a magnetically-confined plasma, such as tokamak plasma, by injecting the ion beam into the plasma along a trajectory that is...
4549082 Synthetic plasma ion source  
An improved crossed-beam charge-exchange ion gun in which a synthetic plasma is formed by injecting an electron beam into a collimated molecular beam just before the molecules are ionized by charge...
4517495 Multi-electrode plasma source  
A multi-electrode plasma source for maintaining a plasma loop for heating a stream of sample material traveling along a predetermined path through the loop. Included is at least one set of at least...
4506160 Ion source apparatus  
A gas is introduced into a discharge chamber of an ion source apparatus, and a gas discharge is performed between a thermionic cathode and an anode. Ions are extracted from the plasma formed in...
4412967 Multistage high voltage accelerator for intense charged particle beams  
The invention relates to a multistage high voltage accelerator which especially should be capable of producing intense ion-beams of many million Ampere and many million Volts. The proposed...
4397809 Charged particle machine  
Atomic nuclei undergo fusion reactions by forming two beams of fusible ions traveling at fusion producing velocities opposed in rotation along spiral paths having common axes (35a), common radii...
4353871 Hydrogen isotope separation  
A system of four cryogenic fractional distillation columns interlinked with two equilibrators for separating a DT and hydrogen feed stream into four product streams, consisting of a stream of high...
4347621 Trochoidal nuclear fusion reactor  
The invention pertains to the method and apparatus for the confining of a stream of fusible positive ions at values of density and high average kinetic energy, primarily of tightly looping motions,...
4293794 Generation of intense, high-energy ion pulses by magnetic compression of ion rings  
A system based on the magnetic compression of ion rings, for generating intense (high-current), high-energy ion pulses that are guided to a target without a metallic wall or an applied external...
4252608 Generating end plug potentials in tandem mirror plasma confinement by heating thermal particles so as to escape low density end stoppering plasmas  
The invention provides a method and apparatus for raising the potential of a magnetic mirror cell by pumping charged particles of the opposite sign of the potential desired out of the mirror cell...
4246067 Thermonuclear fusion system  
This invention discloses apparatus and methods to produce nuclear fusion utilizing fusible material in the form of high energy ion beams confined in magnetic fields. For example, beams of deuterons...
4209704 Tandem ion acceleration having a matter-free ion charge reversed zone  
A tandem ion accelerator is disclosed having a charge reversing device for recharging negative ions into positive ions. The recharging is carried out in a matter-free zone and a light source is...
4194139 Reflex tetrode for producing an efficient unidirectional ion beam  
A reflex tetrode device for efficiently generating intense, pulsed unidirional ion beams. The device includes two thin, semitransparent anodes spaced from a real cathode which is maintained at...
4172008 Nuclear fusion reactor  
A rapidly pulsed nuclear fusion reaction system including a firing chamber into which synchronized opposing beams of ionized gas such as deuterium/tritium are injected in the form of ion pulses...
4140576 Apparatus for neutralization of accelerated ions  
Apparatus for neutralization of a beam of accelerated ions, such as hydrogen negative ions (H - ), using relatively efficient strip diode lasers which emit monochromatically at an appropriate...
4140577 Photodetachment process for beam neutralization  
A process for neutralization of accelerated ions employing photo-induced charge detachment. The process involves directing a laser beam across the path of a negative ion beam such as to effect...
4128764 Collective field accelerator  
A collective field accelerator which operates with a vacuum diode and utilizes a grooved cathode and a dielectric anode that operates with a relativistic electron beam with a ν/γ of .about. 1,...
4087720 Multi-beam, multi-aperture ion sources of the beam-plasma type  
A multi-beam, multi-aperture ion source of the beam-plasma type comprises three major regions: the first region where there is created a plurality of electron beams useful for the extraction and...
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