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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
K. Yoshikawa, H. Toku, K. Masuda, T. Mizutani, A. Nagafuchi, M. Imoto, T. Takamatsu, K. Nagasaki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 529-533
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Nonelectric Applications | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A391
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A magnetron discharge was adopted in the inertial-electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion device for drastic improvement of fusion reaction rate. With this discharge in the vicinity of the vacuum chamber, a substantial number of ions produced there are expected to have almost full energy corresponding to the applied voltage to the transparent IEC cathode under relatively low pressures compared with the conventional glow discharge. The magnetron discharge is found to occur even for the pressure of 0.07 mTorr (H2) in the present configuration of the experiment, compared with 5 mTorr in the glow discharge.
