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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2015
Applicant:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Akintunde I. Akinwande, Newton, MA (US);
Stephen Angelo Guerrera, Waitsfield, VT (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 27/20 (2006.01); H01J 37/08 (2006.01); H05H 3/06 (2006.01); H01J 27/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 27/205 (2013.01); H01J 27/26 (2013.01); H01J 37/08 (2013.01); H05H 3/06 (2013.01); H01J 2237/082 (2013.01);
Abstract
Example compact ion beam sources are provided that can be used to generate ion beams using chemical species and field emitter elements or field emitter arrays. In some example, the compact ion beam source can be implemented as neutron sources based on ion beam bombardment of neutron-rich targets.