Ion Sources

2020 Publications

Anand George, Taneli Kalvas, Stephane Melanson, Nicolas Savard, Dave Potkins, Morgan Dehnel, and Neil G. R. Broderick “A Study of the Optical Effect of Plasma Sheath in a Negative Ion Source Using IBSIMU Code” Review of Scientific Instruments (Vol. 91, Issue 1)

2019 Publications

M. Almalki, A. Alrashdi, S. Alshammari, A. Jabr, A. Alabdusalam, M. Dehnel, T. Stewart, “Ion Optical Calculations of High Resolution Analyzing Magnet System for Heavy Molecular Ions at KACST”, Proceedings of the 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC2019), Melbourne, Australia 19 - 24 May 2019

A. George, S. Melanson, D. Potkins, T. Stewart, M. Dehnel, Y. Shimabukuro, N.G.R. Broderick, “Improvements in RF Multicusp Negative Ion Source”, Proceedings of the 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC2019), Melbourne, Australia 19 - 24 May 2019

N. Savard, D. Potkins, P. Jackle, J. Theroux, S. Melanson, G. Marcoux, M. Dehnel, “Development of a Penning Ion Source Test Stand for Production of Alpha Particles”, Proceedings of the 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC2019), Melbourne, Australia 19 - 24 May 2019

A. George, S. Melanson, D. Potkins, M. Dehnel, N. Broderick, H. McDonald, C. Philpott, "Optimisation of D- Ion Production in a Multicusp Ion Source", IPAC2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2018, in press.

S. Melanson, D. Potkins, H. McDonald, C. Philpott & M. Dehnel, “Beam Current Stability Improvements of Negative Carbon Ions Extraction from a Multi-Cusp Ion Source”, NIBS 2018, Novosibirsk Russia, In Press

A.George, S. Melanson, D. Potkins, M. Dehnel, H. McDonald, C. Philpott & N. Broderick, “Effect of Magnetic Filter in a Volume Production Multicusp Ion Source”, NIBS 2018, Novosibirsk Russia, In Press

D. Potkins, M. Dehnel, S. Melanson, T. Stewart, P. Jackle, J. Hinderer, N. Jones, L. Williams,"Improvements to Siemens Eclipse PET Cyclotron Penning Ion Source" NIBS 2018, Novosibirsk Russia, In Press

2017 Publications

S. Melanson, M.P. Dehnel., D.E. Potkins, H.C. McDonald, C. Philpott, "H¯, D¯, C2¯: A Comparison of RF and Filament Powered Volume-Cusp Ion Sources", Proceedings of the 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'17), Copenhagen, Denmark, May 14-19, 2017.

2016 Publications

S. Melanson, M.P. Dehnel, D.E. Potkins, H.C. McDonald, C. Hollinger, J. Theroux, J. Martin, T. Stewart, P. Jackle, C. Philpott, T. Jones, T. Kalvas and O. Tarvainen, "The Extraction of Negative Carbon Ions from a Volume Cusp Ion Source", NIBS 2016 in Oxford UK, Sept 12-16 2016,AIP Conference Proceedings 1869, 040001 (2017)

S. Melanson, D. Potkins, C. Hollinger, J. Martin, C. Philpott, "A PID Algorithm for Filament Powered Volume Cusp Ion Sources", IPAC2016 in Busan South Korea May 8-13, 2016, in press.

S. Melanson, M. Dehnel, D. Potkins, C. Hollinger, J. Theroux, J. Martin, T. Stewart, P. Jackle, D-Pace Inc., Nelson, Canada H. McDonald, T. Jones, C. Philpott, Buckley Systems Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand "The Production of Negative Carbon Ions with a Volume Cusp Ion Source",IPAC2016 in Busan South Korea May 8-13, 2016, in press.

S. Melanson, M. Dehnel, D. Potkins, J. Theroux, C. Hollinger, J. Martin, C. Philpott, T. Stewart, P. Jackle, P. Williams, S. Brown, T. Jones, B. Coad, and S. Withington, "A Negative Ion Source Test Facility",Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Ion Sources, New York, New York, USA, August 2015. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 87, 02B109 (2016)

2015 pUBLICATIONS

T. Kalvas, O. Tarvainen, J. Komppula, H. Koivisto, D.Potkins, T.Stewart, M.P. Dehnel,"A CW Radiofrequency Ion Source for Production of Negative Hydrogen Ion Beams for Cyclotrons",AIP Conf. Proc. 1655, 030015(2015)

2004 pUBLICATIONS

M. Dehnel et al, “An Industrial Cyclotron Ion Source & Injection System”, 17th Int’l Conf. on Cyclotrons and their App’s, 293-295, Tokyo, Japan, 2004.