Recent progress of RIKEN 18 GHz ECRIS

We successfully produced intense beams of highly charged ions from various kind of gaseous elements, organic metallic compounds (by the MIVOC method), and solid materials from RIKEN 18 GHz ECRIS. (e.g. 160 e/spl mu/A of Ar/sup 11+/, 5e /spl mu/A of Ar/sup 16+/, 80 e/spl mu/A of Fe/sup 13+/). The ion confinement time of highly charged ions was also determined under pulsed mode operation.