Automatic gas-levitation system for vacuum deposition of laser-fusion targets
Abstract
An improved simple system was developed to gas-levitate microspheres vacuum-deposition processes. The automatic operation relies on two effects: a lateral stabilizing force provided by a centering-ring; and an automatically incremented gas metering system to offset weight increases during coatings. The system is described.
- Publication:
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Presented at the Am. Vacuum Soc. Natl. Symp
- Pub Date:
- September 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981avs..conf....2J
- Keywords:
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- Equipment Specifications;
- Gas Meters;
- Laser Fusion;
- Laser Targets;
- Levitation;
- Vacuum Deposition;
- Coatings;
- Electronic Equipment;
- Feedback Control;
- Lateral Stability;
- Manometers;
- Optical Measuring Instruments;
- Prisms;
- Thin Films;
- Weight (Mass);
- Lasers and Masers