Plasma device for material surface treatment by high-heat plasma

The plasma linear multi-cusp (PLM) device has been constructed to treat material surface by stationary plasma loads up to 5 MW/m2. The PLM device is a plasma trap with the linear multi-cusp configuration of a magnetic field confined a stationary plasma discharge. It is planned to develop a new technology for creating a highly porous surface structure of refractory metals, including the so-called tungsten and molybdenum “fuzz” with pore size and nanofibers of ∼ 50 nm, which is of considerable interest for material science, nuclear, power engineering and biomedical technologies.