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[en] Complete text of publication follows. It is a tradition in our institute that the staffs of the accelerators write short reports about the activities in the current year. These non-scientific reviews are actually statistics in the institute Annual Report showing the delivered beams and beam-times for each research. The electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source (ECRIS) has been operating since 1997 and 2003 was the st year when we distributed its operation time among the users. Between 2003 and 2007 the yearly operation time was around 500...600 hours. From this year we decided to follow the example of the other accelerators (Cyclotron and the Van de Graaff generators). In this paper we give a short summary on the activities took place in the ECR Laboratory in 2007 (and is planned to do it in every Annual Reports in the subsequent years). Since 2006 the ATOMKI-ECRIS has two operation modes. The ECRIS-A is the original assembly to produce highly charged ion beams. The ECRIS-B configuration forms large-size, low-charged plasmas for materials research and plasma investigations. In 2007 the ion source operated two months in the 'B' mode (January and February) and 10 months in the 'A' mode. Table 1 summarizes the plasma and beam hours devoted for the research topics. Separated papers are published in this Report if remarkable results were achieved in any of these topics. More information and other details are in the homepage of the laboratory. The terminology 'beam-time' or 'hour' however, is a little different from the other accelerators. A part of the experiments at the ECR ion source require the generation of plasma only and no beam extraction is necessary. The ours in the table mean the time when a plasma was made in the plasma chamber. In most cases an ion beam was extracted so the ECRIS operated as a real accelerator. 'Beam development' means our continuous time-consuming e rts with the goal to produce new plasmas and beams with better parameters: higher charge, higher intensity, better transport efficiency, wider ion choice, etc. Beyond the scientific research several technical developments improved the ability of the ion source. The plasma chamber (A-mode) was modified in order to avoid O-ring melting. The high voltage insulation was improved and now we can reach and use 30 kV acceleration voltage (the old top value was 20 kV). Two quartz windows were installed in the beam-line for on-line observing of the beam spot using web cameras. We successfully exceeded the old record for Helike Ar (Ar16+) and now the new record is 7 nA at 10 kV terminal voltage
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