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In order to meet the heating requirement of EAST tokamak, ion cyclotron range of frequency (ICRF) heating is utilized as one of the main auxiliary heating methods, which plays an important role in coupling radio frequency (RF) power into the plasma. As a member of plasma facing components, ICRF antenna suffers the plasma radiation as well which is one of the causes of the thermal load on the antenna. Plasma radiation and RF thermal load during the operation of ICRF and thermal load caused by HALO current during vertical displacement event will contribute together to a huge thermal load on the surface of the antenna and consequently the structural stability and reliability of ICRF antenna will be affected. Therefore, cooling channels is needed to remove heat on the ICRF antenna. In this paper, cooling channels for straps of ICRF antenna are designed based on the thermal load on the antenna, and thermal-structural analysis of straps with cooling channels is also carried out by the finite-element method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports the levitation of micro-organisms in the sheath of radio-frequency (RF) plasma. Based on simple force-balance calculations, the required electric field for the levitation of micro-organisms has been estimated. It is predicted that micro-organisms could levitate at the periphery of the sheath. Experimental results demonstrate the levitation of two species of bacillus micro-organisms Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Klebsiella pneumoniae in an RF plasma. The almost monodiverse Klebsiella pneumoniae levitating in the RF plasma formed an ordered state similar to a 2-D Coulomb crystal. Diverse E. coli particles demonstrate the tendency that the levitating height of micro-organisms decreases as the radius of particles increases. Levitating micro-organisms in plasmas can be referred as dusty plasmas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, using the optical emission spectroscopy technique, a comparative study is performed on the argon excitation and nitrogen vibrational temperatures in the plasma discharge medium of a manufactured RF plasma jet. The argon contribution in the Ar/N2 mixture is varied from 70% to 98% and the obtained optical emission spectra from argon and molecular nitrogen are analyzed. The highest emission intensities of neutral argon (Ar I) are recorded in the wavelength range of 790-850 nm. It is seen that, at the higher argon percentages in the mixture, the emission intensity from all the formed species in the plasma discharge medium of the RF plasma jet will increase. In addition, at the lower Ar contributions in the mixture, both the argon excitation and nitrogen vibrational temperatures are higher. Furthermore, it is shown that, at the higher Ar percentages in the mixture, both of the electronic temperatures are decreased. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A triode magnetron injection gun (MIG) is designed for a 1-MW 170-GHz gyrotron, which will be used in an electron cyclotron resonance heating system for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. The initial design of MIG is performed by using the in-house code MIGSYN. For the electron-beam emission and propagation, the 2-D code EGUN is implemented. The transverse-to-axial velocity ratio α is 1.37, and the transverse velocity spread less than 4% is realized. The results are also validated against two other 2-D and 3-D codes, i.e., TRAK and CST-Particle Studio, respectively, which are in close agreement. From the fabrication and operation point of view, the parametric analysis and misalignment study of electron beam are also performed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]