Structural unit: Faculty of Science.
The laboratories study processes, phenomena and their patterns in plasma media, processes of resonant interaction of electromagnetic radiation (RF and microwave ranges) with magnetically active plasma.
Resourses
The bench and diagnostic base of the laboratories allows conducting:
- Vacuum tests (≈ 1 m3, atmospheric pressure <
10-6 Tor) - Testing of high-voltage equipment in continuous and pulse modes
- Magnetostatic effect (uniformity up to 0.5 Gs/cm, maximum induction value < 3 kGf)
- Investigation of the interaction of microwave fields with charged particles in an inhomogeneous magnetic field
X-ray spectrometry (1keV ÷ 2 MeV)- Emission and absorption optical spectrometry of UV-IR
X-ray imaging (< 200 keV)- Photoregistration of fast-moving processes (spatial resolution — 25 microns, frame mode, exposure — 10 microseconds)
- Electromagnetic radiation spectrometry in the frequency range from 9 kHz to 14 GHz
- Plasma treatment of the sample surface (etching, coating)
- Effects of plasma media and generated radiation on biological objects
Equipment fleet
The unique composition of plasma installations equipped with a wide range of modern diagnostic tools:
- Three plasma stands of original design with high-frequency and microwave means of creating and heating plasma components, some of which are protected by patents entered in the IAEA register
- A comprehensive stand of ion sources (with hot and cold cathodes, with RF and microwave discharges) for various practical applications
The laboratory team
- Develops innovative methods and devices for plasma generation of radiation of various nature and fluxes of particles of complex chemical and ionization composition
- Creates, develops and implements methods for controlling the parameters of self-organizing magnetized plasma in modern plasma systems
- Develops plasma technologies for the production of nanostructures and materials
Original plasma installations have been developed and put into operation:
- Plasma storage of relativistic plasma
- Plasma autoresonance accelerator
- Multifunctional stand for generating powerful flows of nonequilibrium plasma
- ECR ion sources of various modifications
- Tandem plasma flow accelerator
- Microwave plasma light source
Their operation is based on patented solutions by RUDN University scientists:
- a negative hydrogen ion flux generator,
- a plasma generation method,
- a device for depositing films of amorphous hydrogenated silicon,
- a dissociated molecule flux generator,
- a method for heating plasma to relativistic temperatures.
Partners
- National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”
- All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Optical and Physical Measurements of the State Standard of the Russian Federation
- Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
- St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications named after M.A. Bonch-Bruevich
- Federal Research Center “A.M. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences”
- Troitsky Institute of Innovative and Thermonuclear Research, State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation
- Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation
- Research in the field of vacuum plasma technologies.
- Development of plasma radiation generators (braking, X-ray, synchrotron, ultraviolet, and optical), particle fluxes (ions, electrons, neutrals, and radicals), operating on the principles of interaction of RF and microwave radiation with matter
- Study of the processes of interaction of particle flows with the surface of matter: creation of nanostructured objects on the surface of a solid substrate, creation of semiconductor films, interaction with biological objects, etc.
The possibility of plasma formation with a concentration exceeding the critical value for the used microwave frequency is shown. The results can be applied to improve the performance of low-thrust orbit correction engines. Plasma engines are an alternative to standard liquid fuel engines, the operation of which is associated with the need to deliver fuel components into orbit.
A compact
Radiation sources of various nature, including synchrotron and braking radiation, are under development.