PLASMA ACCELERATOR Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: charge-particles accelerators, in particular, processing metal surfaces with high-power plasma flows, generation of heavy-power pulses of corpuscles. SUBSTANCE: device has electrodes which are connected to heavy- voltage power supply, igniting gas-discharge gap and coaxial acceleration channel. Electrodes of accelerator are designed as two hollow coaxial cylinders which are mounted with space between their ends which is used for ignition of discharge. Accelerating channel is shaped by electrodes and coaxial neutral conducting wire. EFFECT: increased output power of discharge, increased output plasma velocity, increased stability of operations. 1 dwg