While doing a search on "Microwave plasma" on the net I came across these interesting devices: http://www.tectra.de/e/PIS.htm http://www.roth-rau.de/html/eecr.htm http://www.roth-rau.de/html/microwave__plasma_.htm which are filamentless ion and plasma sources designed to work in gas environments containing hydrogen or oxygen. They seem very interesting devices especially the first one which may be possible to copy/adapt from a common microwave oven into an ion source for a fusor. The third one is actually creating a plasma along a length of quartz tubing with 500 watts of RF power, I'm wondering whether it may be possible to create a plasma at the end of a waveguide and then compress it with the electrostatic field to start the fusion.
Are there any regulars out there with enough microwave experience to generate a plasma in the middle of a vacuum chamber? or advise as the the method of doing this?.
Created on Saturday, February 03, 2001 2:41 AM EDT by Mark G Harriss