Particle Guns¶
The following are some links relating to electron guns, ion guns, and 2D cylindrical focusing systems.
A Tour of the SIMION Demo shows a simple focusing system
Lens - general 2D cylindrical electrostatic lens notes
SIMION Example: einzel 2D cylindrical Einzel lens
SIMION Example: tune (basic, 2D cylindrical, lens tuning)
SIMION Example: misc (extract.iob - 2D cylindrical, less simple geometry)
Advanced course - Complex GEM example (3D): http://simion.com/docs/advanced_class/geom_complex_example.pdf (seen on the front of the 7/8/8.1 SIMION User Manual. “courses/advanced/examples/b_gem_complex/” folder
Physics simulation topics:
Some external links found (in no particular order):
Designing an Electron Gun for an Electrostatic Accelerator. P. Lloyd, M Yuly. Houghton College. http://www.houghton.edu/am-site/media/phys-talk—lloyd-yuly-041710pdf.pdf - uses SIMION
Design, development and characterization of terode type electron gun systems for genereation of low energy electrons. A. Deore, B. Patil, V Bhoraskar, D Dhole. http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/14308/1/IJPAP%2050(7)%20482-485.pdf - uses SIMION
Simulation Study for Electron Gun using SIMION Computer Program. M. Abdelraham. Journal of Asian Scientific Research, 2013, 3(3):275-285. http://www.aessweb.com/pdf-files/275-285.pdf - uses SIMION
Optimization of a Low-Energy Electron Gun by Electron Ray-Tracing Simulations. M. Rankovic, J. Rackwitz, I. Bald, A. Milosavljevic. 27th SPIG. Atomic Collision Processes https://mail.ipb.ac.rs/~centar3/radovi171020/2014_CI17_SPIG2014_p58.pdf - uses SIMION 8
Building Scientific Apparatus By John H. Moore, Christopher C. Davis, Michael A. Coplan, Sandra C. Greer. p. 340 https://books.google.com/books?id=yuGHu2HpeIkC - features SIMION in electron gun description
Classification of Electron Gun Operation Modes Using Artificial Neural Networks. N. Isik, A. Isik. 5th International Science Congress & Exhibition APMAS2015, Lykia, Oludeniz, April 16-19, 2015 http://przyrbwn.icm.edu.pl/APP/PDF/129/a129z4p054.pdf - uses SIMION
DC Glow-Discharge Plasma Gun. J. Carmichael. 2007. WPI. https://web.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-041108-184658/unrestricted/Carmichael_MQP.pdf - SIMION
CPOTS 2013 course. 2.4 Case Studies of Electrostatic Lenses - Applications (MD) Three-Element Lenses. Four-Element Lenses. Five-Element Lenses. Electron guns. Entrance optics of energy analyzers http://cpots2013.physics.uoc.gr/course_material/CPOTS2013_course_outline_final.pdf
A pulsed electron gun for ultrafast electron diffraction at surfaces. A. Janzen, B. Krenzer, O. Heinz, P. Zhou, D. Thien, A. Hanisch, F. J. Meyer zu Heringdorf, D. von der Linde, and M. Horn von Hoegen. Review of Scientific Instruments 78, 013906 2007. doi:10.1063/1.2431088 http://www.exp.physik.uni-due.de/vonderLinde/Publikationen/Janzen07RSI78_013906.pdf - SIMION
ETH Optimization of the ion source geometry. Cs sputter ion source. SIMION https://www1.ethz.ch/ams/research/projects/instrument/source_geometry
Physics Design of a Prototype 2-Solenoid LEBT for the SNS Injector. Baoxi Han, Dennis J. Newland, W. Ted Hunter, Martin P. Stockli. http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/pac2011/papers/wep038.pdf
Ion Source Modeling at PRIME Lab. G. Jackson, D. Elmore, M. Caffee, K. Mueller, B. Bonte, P. Muzikar, and B. Alexander. Perdue. https://www.physics.purdue.edu/primelab/ion_source/ion_optics/ion_source_poster.pdf - CAMS ion source, SIMION.
SIMION Simulation Studies for Pentode Extraction System. B.A. Soliman, M.M. Abdelrahman, and F. W. Abdelsalam. 4th Int. Con. Rad. Res. Appl. Sci., Taba, Egypt (2014) PP. 121 : 129. http://www.esrsaeg.net/proceeding/13.pdf
SIMION Calculations for the Triode Extraction. M. M. Abdelrahman , A. G. Helal , O. A. Moustafa , F. W. Abdelsalam. 2012; 2(5): 122-129. doi:10.5923/j.ijtmp.20120205.05