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Ion-beam sources based on room-temperature ionic liquids for aerospace applications, nanotechnology, and microprobe analysis (review)

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An analytical review of the stages of development and state-of-the-art of ion-beam sources, which are based on room-temperature ionic liquids for aerospace and ion-beam technologies, is presented. The properties of ionic liquids—new ion-conducting materials (“liquid plasma or plasma in a bottle”)—are discussed. The design, operating conditions, and technology of manufacturing pointlike, capillary, matrix, and linear ion sources with ionic liquids are described in detail. The main fields of their application, including electrostatic rocket engines (microthrusters) for CubeSat-format satellites and systems with focused ion beams for technological processing of materials and structures in the nanometer region and for microprobe investigations are analyzed.

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  1. Center for Physics and Technological Research, Dept. de Física da Faculdade de Ciênciase Technologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal

    A. B. Tolstogouzov & O. M. N. D. Teodoro

  2. Ryazan State Radio Engineering University, ul. Gagarina 59/1, Ryazan, 390005, Russia

    A. B. Tolstogouzov, V. S. Gurov, A. I. Taganov & A. A. Trubitsyn

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    S. F. Belykh & A. A. Lozovan

  4. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, bul. Akademika Vernadskogo 36, Kyiv, 03680, Ukraine

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Original Russian Text © A.B. Tolstogouzov, S.F. Belykh, V.S. Gurov, A.A. Lozovan, A.I. Taganov, O.M.N.D. Teodoro, A.A. Trubitsyn, S.P. Chenakin, 2015, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2015, No. 1, pp. 5–20.

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Tolstogouzov, A.B., Belykh, S.F., Gurov, V.S. et al. Ion-beam sources based on room-temperature ionic liquids for aerospace applications, nanotechnology, and microprobe analysis (review). Instrum Exp Tech 58, 1–14 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S002044121501011X

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