Dynamitron

The Dynamitron is an electrostatic particle accelerator invented by Marshal Cleland in 1956 at Washington University and manufactured by IBA Industrial (formerly Radiation Dynamics). It is similar to a Cockcroft-Walton accelerator, using a series capacitor-diode ladder network to generate a high DC voltage on an electrode, which accelerates particles through an evacuated beam tube between the electrode and a target at ground potential. However instead of being powered at one end as in the CW, the capacitive ladder is charged in parallel electrostatically by a high frequency oscillating voltage applied between two long cylindrical electrodes on either side of the ladder column, which induce voltage in semicircular corona rings attached to each end of the diode rectifier tubes. in combinati

Dynamitron

The Dynamitron is an electrostatic particle accelerator invented by Marshal Cleland in 1956 at Washington University and manufactured by IBA Industrial (formerly Radiation Dynamics). It is similar to a Cockcroft-Walton accelerator, using a series capacitor-diode ladder network to generate a high DC voltage on an electrode, which accelerates particles through an evacuated beam tube between the electrode and a target at ground potential. However instead of being powered at one end as in the CW, the capacitive ladder is charged in parallel electrostatically by a high frequency oscillating voltage applied between two long cylindrical electrodes on either side of the ladder column, which induce voltage in semicircular corona rings attached to each end of the diode rectifier tubes. in combinati