Developing and Constructing a Piezoelectric Drive Amplifier (PDA) for Calibrating Ball Pen Pins of the Mix Probe Diagnostic to Measure Plasma Potential in the IR-T1 Tokamak
摘要
In this work, a Piezoelectric Drive Amplifier (PDA) was designed and constructed for the first time to calibrate Ball Pen Probe (BPP) pins of Mix Probe in order to measure plasma potential in IR-T1 tokamak. The PDA amplifies a triangular wave generated by a signal generator with ±10 V and 1 kHz frequency to ±100 V, 1 kHz frequency and a maximum current 100 mA to sweep the collector of BPP of the mix probe. Current–voltage characteristic of BPP was plotted for a 10 ms plasma duration at Last Closed Flux Surface (LCFS) while the collector was swept between ±100 V by the PDA. The Ball Pen coefficient (