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We have constructed a magnetron nanocluster ion source by plasma-gas-aggregations. Using the magnetron type nanocluster ion source and TOF mass spectrometer, we measured the mass distribution of boron nanoclusters. In these experiments, we detected nanocluster of while the peaks around these masses cannot be resolved. Although magnetron type nanocluster source is useful tool, it has a weak beam intensity and short lifetime for using as an ion source of nanocluster ion implantation, which is one of the important applications for the nanocluster ion source. For this reason, we are constructing and developing a new nanocluster ion source (waveguide-surfatron nanocluster ion source). The new nanocluster ion source consists a large area plasma ion source and gas aggregation cell instead of present nanocluster ion source configuration (magnetron type nanocluster ion source).

Ion source provides sample ions for FAIMS. The key technology is ionization method. Efficient ionization of analytes is the core technology for data acquisition in high quality FAIMS systems. In order to long-distance detect and analyze harmful and toxic substances such as explosives, drugs, chemical reagents and environmental pollutants in an open environment, without pretreatment, real-time and on-line, the ion source control and its technical device using excessive electric field were designed and developed. The disadvantages of high flow rate of APCI and low flow rate of ESI are integrated, based on the chemical analysis principle of FAIMS, an experimental platform of ionization technology based on excessive electric field is proposed and designed, which mainly includes: ion focusing system, flat-panel migration zone with focusing structure, sample integration, etc. The experimental results show that the ion source based on excessive electric field can be widely used in biochemical weapon warning, drug tablet detection, environmental monitoring, food and drug detection and clinical medicine, and the detection limit can reach 0.1 ppm.

There are a growing number of applications for ion accelerators, with increasingly complex beam requirements and progressively higher beam intensities. The performance of the ion injector is critical to the success of these projects. First, there is the ion source that has to produce the desired ion species, with a large variety of desired species requiring vastly different ion sources. In addition, the ion source has to produce those ions with the desired rate and without debilitating impurities, as well as with the desired duty factor. Several examples will show that very successful ion sources can fail when the duty factor is increased because their lifetime becomes too short or their failure rate too high. Equally important is the extraction of those ions and their transport to the next stage of acceleration, because the slow ion velocities pose a serious challenge to increasing the intensity. As the beam intensity is increased, its emittance, stability and controllability become more important. This article cannot cover this subject in depth. It tries to provide a flavor of the complexities and serve as an introduction to further reading and studies.

The SPES project at Laboratori di Legnaro of INFN (Italy) is concentrating on the production of neutron-rich radioactive nuclei for nuclear physics experiments using uranium fission at a rate of 10¹³ fission/s. The emphasis on neutron-rich isotopes is justified by the fact that this vast territory has been little explored. The Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) will be produced by the ISOL technique using proton induced fission on a direct target of UCx. The most critical element of the SPES project is the Multi-Foil Direct Target. Up to the present time, the proposed target represents an innovation in terms of its capability to sustain the primary beam power. This talk will present the status of the project financed by INFN, which is actually in the construction phase at Legnaro. In particular, developments related to the target and the ion-source activities using the surface ion source, plasma ion source, and laser ion source techniques will be reported.

There are a growing number of applications for ion accelerators, with increasingly complex beam requirements and progressively higher beam intensities. The performance of the ion injector is critical to the success of these projects. First, there is the ion source that has to produce the desired ion species, with a large variety of desired species requiring vastly different ion sources. In addition, the ion source has to produce those ions with the desired rate and without debilitating impurities, as well as with the desired duty factor. Several examples will show that very successful ion sources can fail when the duty factor is increased because their lifetime becomes too short or their failure rate too high. Equally important is the extraction of those ions and their transport to the next stage of acceleration, because the slow ion velocities pose a serious challenge to increasing the intensity. As the beam intensity is increased, its emittance, stability and controllability become more important. This article cannot cover this subject in depth. It tries to provide a flavor of the complexities and serve as an introduction to further reading and studies.