NEC Beam Profile Monitors (BPMs) provide a continuous scope display of the shape and position of the beam cross section in both X and Y coordinates. They can monitor beams of electrons, ions, and energetic neutral particles.
NEC manufactures a complete line of all metal and ceramic, bakeable beamline components. These are compatible with ion and electron beam systems. Many components are designed or customized to user specifications. However, more common components and configurations are described in the links below.
NEC Beam Profile Monitors (BPMs) provide a continuous scope display of the shape and position of the beam cross section in both X and Y coordinates. They can monitor beams of electrons, ions, and energetic neutral particles.
The Low Current Beam Profile Monitor, Model BPM90-LC, can be used with both positive and negative ions, electrons, and neutral beams, like all NEC BPM models.
NEC manufactures several types of Faraday cups designed for accurate measurement of ion beam currents.
NEC slits are ideal for applications requiring accurate control of beam size, determination of beam divergence, or limiting beam current. NEC's slits are designed for use on injection and high energy beamlines of medium to high current or high energy electrostatic accelerators.
The NEC foil/target changer features a unique design that has found wide acceptance in accelerator laboratories throughout the world.
NEC provides both magnetic and electrostatic ion beam steering components including, but not limited to, neutral trap deflectors and raster scanners.
NEC provides both magnetic and electrostatic ion beam lenses for various focusing needs including, but not limited to, quadrupole lenses, microprobe lenses, and einzel lenses.
NEC has provided switching and analyzing magnets in the past, but custom specifications can be requested. Chamber and stands are provided.
NEC Crossed Field Velocity Selectors provide mass and charge analysis. Various models are available for use in high potential terminals and for analysis of exterior ion source beams.
The microprobe beamline extension will provide beam diameters from 20 microns to 2 mm in an RBS target chamber.
NEC acceleration tubes are the best in the industry and have proven to be very reliable in Pelletron accelerators of all sizes. They provide a complete insulating barrier.
NEC beamline insulator provides complete electrical isolation with ultra-high vacuum compatibility on beamline systems. They are very effective in isolating sensitive detection equipment from electrical noise that may be generated by very high voltage ion beam accelerators.
NEC ceramic/titanium insulating support posts are ideal for applications that require holding high voltage gradients while under significant compressive loads.
NEC vacuum valves are ultra-high vacuum compatible and allow rapid and reliable closure. Metering valves, right angle valves, and straight through valves are available.
NEC vibration isolators significantly reduce vibration transmitted by turbo pumps or cryopumps to target chambers, microscopes, wafer processing chambers, end stations, or other vacuum apparatus that must be kept motionless.
The NEC coaxial pressure sensor and trigger controller function to provide reliable protection against catastrophic vacuum failure.
Titanium sublimation pumping is ideal for fast pump down and high loads of chemically active gases. A variety of sublimator cartridge sizes and array designs are available.
NEC magnetic coupled rotary feedthroughs are ideal for applications requiring the transmission of high speed rotary motion into ultra-high vacuum environments. It is used to measure beam cross sectional shape.
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