ITER envisages the use of two heating neutral beam injectors plus an optional one as part of
the auxiliary heating and current drive system, to reach the desired performances during its …

SPIDER is the full-scale prototype of the ion source of the ITER Heating Neutral Beam
Injector, where negative ions of Hydrogen or Deuterium are produced by a RF generated …

Radio frequency ion sources used in neutral beam injection systems (NBI) of fusion
machines are currently supplied by self-excited RF generators. These generators have both …

India is responsible for the supply of diagnostic neutral beam systems for ITER to diagnose
its helium ash during the deuterium–tritium plasma phase using the charge exchange …

Impedance matching circuit between radio frequency (RF) generator and the plasma load,
placed between them, determines the RF power transfer from RF generator to the plasma …

The RF based single driver− ve ion source experiment test bed ROBIN (Replica Of BATMAN
like source in INDIA) has been set up at Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), India in a …

The Doppler Shift Spectroscopy (DSS) diagnostic is in the conceptual stage to estimate
beam divergence, stripping losses, and beam uniformity of the 100 keV hydrogen …

ROBIN, the first step in the Indian R&D program on negative ion beams has reached an
important milestone, with the production of negative ions in the surface conversion mode …

Operational commissioning of ROBIN forms an important milestone in the Indian programme
on the R&D on negative ion beams. The commissioning activity has been effected in …

In the pursuit of precise diagnostics for measuring negative ion density in a helicon plasma
source (HPS), a new approach utilizing a radio frequency (RF) broadband transformer …