US 12,010,788 B2
Systems, devices, and methods for initiating beam transport in a beam system
Vladislav Vekselman, Lake Forest, CA (US); Suu Duong, Lake Forest, CA (US); Alexander Dunaevsky, Corona, CA (US); and Igor Nikolaevich Sorokin, Novosibirsk (RU)
Assigned to TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Foothill Ranch (CA)
Filed by TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Foothill Ranch, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/400,979.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/213,618, filed on Jun. 22, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/065,436, filed on Aug. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0078900 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H05H 9/04 (2006.01); H05H 9/02 (2006.01); H05H 13/00 (2006.01); H05H 13/10 (2006.01); H05H 7/22 (2006.01)
CPC H05H 9/02 (2013.01) [H05H 2007/225 (2013.01); H05H 2007/227 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of initiating beam transport for a tandem accelerator system, the method comprising:
biasing one or more electrodes of the tandem accelerator system to a first voltage level;
extracting a charged particle beam from a beam source such that the charged particle beam is transported through the tandem accelerator system, wherein the charged particle beam has a beam current at a first beam current level that results in a first transient voltage drop of the tandem accelerator system within a threshold such that the one or more electrodes maintain a non-zero voltage; and
increasing the beam current at a rate that results in one or more subsequent transient voltage drops of the tandem accelerator system until the beam current reaches a second beam current level, wherein the one or more subsequent transient voltage drops are within the threshold.