200 kV Ion Accelerator facility at Kurukshetra University, India

Abstract

The air insulated high current medium energy 200 kV Ion Accelerator, with the terminal voltage in the range of 30–200 kV has been successfully operational at Ion Beam Centre, KU, Kurukshetra, India. A unique and imperative feature of this High Voltage Engineering Europa machine is the availability of only a single charge state, switching magnet with five exit ports and large area implantation using (-hollow cathode ion source). Ar+, B+, N+, Au+, H+, Ag+, Ni+ etc are the typically implanted ions. At present, only one beam line having beam rastering system is working specifically for material science research. The accelerator is consistently being used for conducting experiments using a wide variety of ion and target combination for research in diverse disciplines like materials science, atomic physics etc.. Ion beam sputter erosion experiments have been conducted successfully using different ion beams with varying current and energy. With the continued interest of researchers in this field, our accelerator’s use and research output is likely to many-fold in the near future.