Intense ion beam characterization and thermal modeling for beam materials processing

We have developed an intense ion beam to investigate materials processing applications. Initial experiments have focused on thin film formation by depositing beam-ablated target material on substrates. Measurements of beam properties governing target ablation are presented here. Techniques include Thomson parabola particle spectroscopy to measure the ion beam atomic composition and the energy spectrum of each beam component, and thermal imaging to measure the beam incident energy density. Measurements are used as input to a computer model of the beam-target interaction Comparison of computational results with target ablation I Ind target energy absorption are found to be in good agreement.