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- Physics
- Atomic and molecular physics
- Ion sources
Ion sources
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Middleton, Roy Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Geller, Richard Institut de Recherche Fondamentale, Département de Recherche Fondamentale de Grenoble, Service de Physique Atomique, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Grenoble, France.
Stockli, Martin P. Department of Physics, J.R. Macdonald Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas.
Middleton, Roy Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
McKibben, Joseph L. Physics Division, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Middleton, Roy Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Last reviewed:January 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.351900
- Methods of Positive-Ion Formation
- Electron impact
- Positive surface ionization
- Spark discharge
- Laser ionization
- Field ionization
- Thermal ionization
- Sputtering
- Methods of Negative-Ion Formation
- Direct extraction
- Charge exchange
- Cesium-beam sputtering
- Negative surface ionization
- Positive-Ion Source Concepts
- Duoplasmatron
- Heavy-ion sources
- Negative-Ion Source Concepts
- Charge exchange source
- Cesium-beam sputter source
- Cesium-vapor Penning source
- Polarized Ion Sources
- Conventional or ground-state source
- Lamb-shift or metastable-atom source
- Colliding-beam source
- Related Primary Literature
- Additional Reading
Devices that produce positive or negative electrically charged atoms or molecules. See also: Ion
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