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Various Other IEC Concepts and Experiments

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A number of IEC concepts have been proposed over the years. Here we have chosen a few experiments that have received attention and supplement discussions in Chaps. 1, 2, and 9. We begin with the early Hirsch gun injected IEC experiment, briefly mentioned in Chap. 1. This device is important both historically and from a physics perspective. Recent studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, using gun injectors designed to reproduce Hirsh’s results are then described. This is followed by discussions of variations of “Star” mode experiments, including pulsed operation and getter pumping. Several experiments using alternate ion or plasma formation, including an internal magnetron discharge and helicon plasma generation, are reviewed. Other experiments using electron injection, including the Penning trap and POPS concepts studied at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), are briefly discussed.

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Miley, G.H., Murali, S.K. (2014). Various Other IEC Concepts and Experiments. In: Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) Fusion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9338-9_10

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