Search Results - "Meger, RA"

Diagnostics for Kinematics on MTF at NRL by Douglass, Scott R., Reid, Remington R., Meger, Robert A., Neri, Jesse M., Cairns, Richard L., Carney, Carl, Huhman, Brett M.

“…The Material Test Facility (MTF) houses a medium-caliber electromagnetic (EM) railgun that is designed for ease of access. As such, it is ideal for developing…”
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EM Gun Bore Life Experiments at Naval Research Laboratory by Meger, Robert A., Cairns, Richard L., Douglass, Scott R., Huhman, Brett, Neri, Jesse M., Carney, Carl J., Jones, Harry N., Cooper, Khershed, Feng, Jerry, Brintlinger, Todd H., Sprague, James A., Michopoulos, John G., Young, Marcus M., DeGiorgi, Virginia, Leung, Alan, Baucom, Jared N., Wimmer, Stephanie

“…The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) performs basic and applied research on high power railguns as part of the US Navy EM Launcher program. The understanding of…”
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NRL Materials Testing Facility by Meger, Robert A., Huhman, Brett M., Neri, Jesse M., Brintlinger, Todd H., Jones, Harry N., Cairns, Richard L., Douglass, Scott R., Lockner, Thomas R., Sprague, James A.

“…The Naval Research Laboratory Materials Testing Facility performs basic research on high-power railguns. The laboratory houses a 6-m-long, 5-cm-bore railgun…”
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Electron-beam-generated plasmas for materials processing by Walton, S.G, Muratore, C, Leonhardt, D, Fernsler, R.F, Blackwell, D.D, Meger, R.A

“…The results of investigations aimed at characterizing pulsed, electron-beam-produced plasmas for use in materials processing applications are discussed. In…”
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Analysis of rail surfaces from a multishot railgun by Meger, R.A., Cooper, K., Jones, H., Neri, J., Qadri, S., Singer, I.L., Sprague, J., Wahl, K.J.

“…The Naval Research Laboratory has initiated a program to study the effects of high power launch on railgun barrel materials. A rail used for 20 shots on the…”
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Extraction of positive and negative ions from electron-beam-generated plasmas by Walton, S. G., Leonhardt, D., Fernsler, R. F., Meger, R. A.

“…The results of investigations using pulsed, electron-beam-produced plasmas in Ar/SF6 mixtures are reported. Time-resolved, positive, and negative ion fluxes…”
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On the extraction of positive and negative ions from electron-beam-generated plasmas by Walton, S. G., Leonhardt, D., Fernsler, R. F., Meger, R. A.

“…The results of investigations using pulsed, electron-beam-produced plasmas in Ar/SF6 mixtures are reported. Positive and negative ions were extracted during…”
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Plasma enhanced surface treatments using electron beam-generated plasmas by Leonhardt, D., Muratore, C., Walton, S.G., Meger, R.A.

“…NRL has developed a ‘large area plasma processing system’ (LAPPS) utilizing a high energy (∼2 keV) modulated electron beam to drive the plasma ionization. This…”
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Low-temperature nitriding of stainless steel in an electron beam generated plasma by Muratore, C., Leonhardt, D., Walton, S.G., Blackwell, D.D., Fernsler, R.F., Meger, R.A.

“…An electron beam generated plasma processing system was characterized with in situ diagnostics and employed for a series of low energy (350 eV) stainless steel…”
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Generation of electron-beam produced plasmas and applications to surface modification by Leonhardt, D., Muratore, C., Walton, S.G., Blackwell, D.D., Fernsler, R.F., Meger, R.A.

“…NRL has developed a number of hollow cathodes to generate sheets of electrons culminating in a ‘Large Area Plasma Processing System’ (LAPPS) based on the…”
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Etching with electron beam generated plasmas by Leonhardt, D., Walton, S. G., Muratore, C., Fernsler, R. F., Meger, R. A.

“…A modulated electron beam generated plasma has been used to dry etch standard photoresist materials and silicon. Oxygen–argon mixtures were used to etch…”
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Effect of plasma flux composition on the nitriding rate of stainless steel by Muratore, C., Walton, S. G., Leonhardt, D., Fernsler, R. F., Blackwell, D. D., Meger, R. A.

“…The total ion flux and nitriding rate for stainless steel specimens exposed to a modulated electron beam generated argon-nitrogen plasma were measured as a…”
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Plasma diagnostics in large area plasma processing system by Leonhardt, D., Walton, S. G., Blackwell, D. D., Amatucci, W. E., Murphy, D. P., Fernsler, R. F., Meger, R. A.

“…A series of plasma diagnostic have been carried out in our large area plasma processing system which is based on a modulated electron-beam produced plasma…”
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Plasma study of a moly-oxide-argon discharge bulb by Giuliani, J.L., Petrov, G.M., Pechacek, R.E., Meger, R.A.

“…A mercury-free molybdenum-oxide-argon (Mo-O-Ar) electrodeless discharge is described with potential application to plasma lighting. The low-pressure metallic…”
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Ion energy distributions in a pulsed, electron beam-generated plasma by Walton, S. G., Leonhardt, D., Blackwell, D. D., Fernsler, R. F., Murphy, D. P., Meger, R. A.

“…In this work, we investigate the ion flux at a grounded electrode located adjacent to a pulsed, argon plasma generated by a high-energy electron beam. The…”
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Measurement of a planar discharge and its interaction with a neutral background gas by Gregor, J.A., Fernsler, R.F., Meger, R.A.

“…The evolution of a weakly ionized magnetized sheet plasma generated in 100-200 mtorr air has been investigated. A 1.2/spl times/50 cm hollow cathode imbedded…”
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Microwave emission from plasmas produced by magnetically confined-electron beams by Murphy, D.P., Fernsler, R.F., Pechacek, R.E., Meger, R.A.

“…Microwave emission, in the x-band frequency range (8.2-12.4 GHz), from a thin, large, rectangular sheet plasma has been measured. The plasma electron density…”
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Generation of Large Area, Sheet Plasma Mirrors for Redirecting High Frequency Microwave Beams by Mathew, J, Fernsler, RF, Meger, RA, Gregor, JA, Murphy, DP, Pechacek, RE, Manheimer, WM

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Probe diagnostic development for electron beam produced plasmas by Blackwell, D. D., Walton, S. G., Leonhardt, D., Murphy, D. P., Fernsler, R. F., Amatucci, W. E., Meger, R. A.

“…A variety of diagnostics have been fielded in different plasma sources to provide new information about the large area plasma processing system (LAPPS) at NRL…”
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Demonstration of a plasma mirror for microwaves by Robson, A.E., Morgan, R.L., Meger, R.A.

“…A plane sheet of partially ionized plasma produced by a pulsed, hollow-cathode glow discharge in an axial magnetic field has been shown to reflect X-band…”
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