Southeastern Univ. Research Assn., Inc.

Jeffrey Glenn Dail

Randolph Frank Wojcik

Cornelis Apeldoorn

Chen Yan

Nikolai I Sinkine

William Gunning

An improved raster magnet driver for a linear particle beam is based on an H-bridge technique. Four branches of power HEXFETs form a two-by-two switch. Switching the HEXFETs in a predetermined order and at the right frequency produces a triangular current waveform. An H-bridge controller controls switching sequence and timing. The magnetic field of the coil follows the shape of the waveform and thus steers the beam using a triangular rather than a sinusoidal waveform. The system produces a raster pattern having a highly uniform raster density distribution, eliminates target heating from non-uniform raster density distributions, and produces higher levels of beam current.

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Poquoson, VA, United States of America

Jeffrey Glenn Dail