An electronic device includes a first resonator electrode and a second resonator electrode in an interconnect stack over a semiconductor substrate. The first resonator electrode includes a first lower resonator electrode, a first upper resonator electrode and a first plurality of vias between the first lower resonator electrode and the first upper resonator electrode. The second resonator electrode includes a second lower resonator electrode, a second upper resonator electrode, and a second plurality of vias between the second lower resonator electrode and the second upper resonator electrode. A cavity in the interconnect stack is bounded by the first resonator electrode and the second resonator electrode. An electron emitter extends from the semiconductor surface between the first and second resonator electrodes and is configured to direct electrons into the cavity. The electronic device may be operated to produce short wavelength radiation, e.g. x-rays.

A proton cyclotron is provided for dedicated use in head, neck and eye cancers, tumors or other medical conditions including pediatric and other cancers or medical conditions. The method of using a proton cyclotron for treating a tumor, cancer or medical condition of a patient includes positioning the patient on a support platform, such as on a patient table or in a robotic chair, and irradiating the tumor, cancer or other medical condition using a proton particle beam from the cyclotron for a predetermined time sufficient to treat the tumor, cancer or medical condition, wherein the proton particle beam produced by the cyclotron has an energy in a range of 70 MeV to 150 MeV and has a beam current in an amount suitable for radiation therapy, as can include a variable range of beam current for the radiation therapy.

An accelerator capable of efficiently and satisfactorily extracting a beam is provided. A main magnet A101 applies a main magnetic field to a space between a plurality of main magnetic poles M202 arranged to face each other. An RF kicker M204 causes a beam circulating in a main magnetic field region to which the main magnetic field is applied to be displaced to outside of the main magnetic field region. An extraction channel magnetic field to extract the beam is generated. A canceling magnetic field generation device M214 is provided to be closer to an inner peripheral side than an extraction channel M207 and generates a canceling magnetic field with a polarity opposite to that of a disturbance magnetic field produced by an extraction channel.

The present disclosure relates to a cyclotron, a radiation therapy apparatus, an adjustment unit, an adjustment device of a superconducting coil, and an adjustment method thereof. The adjustment unit includes a rotating shaft, a drive assembly, a transmission assembly, and a detection element. The rotating shaft is capable of rotating driven by an external drive unit; the drive assembly includes an actuator and a tension assembly, the actuator being configured to drive the tension assembly to move linearly through rotation, and one end of the tension assembly being connected to a superconducting coil and capable of driving the superconducting coil to move; the transmission assembly is connected to the rotating shaft and the actuator, respectively, and configured to transmit power to the actuator; and the detection element is connected to the actuator and configured to monitor a displacement of the tension assembly and a displacement of the superconducting coil.

A technique for determining the kinetic energy of a hadron beam using elements of the particle time of flight method, where all amplitudes for the measured signals S.sup.A(k) and S.sup.B(k) are recorded simultaneously from two detectors (A) and (B) located at a precisely defined distance L from each other and connected to a processing unit enabling the analysis of images recorded by both detectors, placed along the line of the studied hadron beam, over a period of time corresponding at least to 100 times the theoretical value for the time of flight of a hadron beam particle between the detectors (A) and (B), with time resolution at least on the level of 0.5 ns.

A magnetic orbital angular momentum beam accelerator will accelerate charged particles, electrons or ions, from rest in zero or low magnetic field into a high magnetic field regions with high kinetic energies in the form of magnetic orbital angular momentum. For example, a beam injector that accelerates electrons or ions into 1T magnetic fields with tens of keV kinetic energies transverse to the magnetic fields can be used to heat magnetically confined plasmas, to inject an initial energetic plasma component with high magnetic orbital angular momentum and to produce highly transverse particle momenta to the magnetic field for electron or ion beam lithography.