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Author : Gianluigi Ciovati
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Download or read book Investigation of the Superconducting Properties of Niobium Radio-frequency Cavities written by Gianluigi Ciovati and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gianluigi Ciovati
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783843387439
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book Superconducting Properties of Niobium Radio-frequency Cavities written by Gianluigi Ciovati and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities are used to increase the energy of a charged particle beam in particle accelerators throughout the world. Bulk niobium is the material of choice to fabricate SRF cavities and their performance at cryogenic temperatures is characterized by a non-linearity of the surface resistance as a function of the RF field, in absence of field emission, which limits the operational accelerating gradient. This book presents the results on the investigation of such non-linearity in cavities which received different surface and bulk treatments as well as cavities made of single-crystal niobium. The experimental methods include measurements of the surface impedance as a function of temperature, of the quality factor as a function of the RF field below 4.2 K, and the excitation of different resonant modes. A thermometry system was used to better characterize the loss mechanisms. This book consists of the author's PhD dissertation at Old Dominion University (ODU) under the supervision of Prof. Colm T. Whelan of ODU and Dr. Peter Kneisel of Jefferson Lab. This book should be useful to students or young researchers in the field of SRF for accelerators.
Author : Pulkit Garg
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Total Pages : 97 pages
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Download or read book The Effect of Defects on Functional Properties of Niobium for Superconducting Radio-frequency Cavities written by Pulkit Garg and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niobium is the primary material for fabricating superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities. However, presence of impurities and defects degrade the superconducting behavior of niobium twofold, first by nucleating non-superconducting phases and second by increasing the residual surface resistance of cavities. In particular, niobium absorbs hydrogen during cavity fabrication and promotes precipitation of non-superconducting niobium hydride phases. Additionally, magnetic flux trapping at defects leads to a normal conducting (non-superconducting) core which increases surface resistance and negatively affects niobium performance for superconducting applications. However, undelaying mechanisms related to hydride formation and dissolution along with defect interaction with magnetic fields is still unclear. Therefore, this dissertation aims to investigate the role of defects and impurities on functional properties of niobium for SRF cavities using first-principles methods. Here, density functional theory calculations revealed that nitrogen addition suppressed hydrogen absorption interstitially and at grain boundaries, and it also decreased the energetic stability of niobium hydride precipitates present in niobium. Further, hydrogen segregation at the screw dislocation was observed to transform the dislocation core structure and increase the barrier for screw dislocation motion. Valence charge transfer calculations displayed a strong tendency of nitrogen to accumulate charge around itself, thereby decreasing the strength of covalent bonds between niobium and hydrogen leading to a very unstable state for interstitial hydrogen and hydrides. Thus, presence of nitrogen during processing plays a critical role in controlling hydride precipitation and subsequent SRF properties. First-principles methods were further implemented to gain a theoretical perspective about the experimental observations that lattice defects are effective at trapping magnetic flux in high-purity superconducting niobium. Full-potential linear augmented plane-wave methods were used to analyze the effects of magnetic field on the superconducting state surrounding these defects. A considerable amount of trapped flux was obtained at the dislocation core and grain boundaries which can be attributed to significantly different electronic structure of defects as compared to bulk niobium. Electron redistribution at defects enhances non-paramagnetic effects that perturb superconductivity, resulting in local conditions suitable for flux trapping. Therefore, controlling accumulation or depletion of charge at the defects could mitigate these tendencies and aid in improving superconductive behavior of niobium.
Author : Mingmin Wang
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ISBN 13 : 9781658423939
Total Pages : 193 pages
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Download or read book Effect of Microscopic Defects on Superconducting Properties of High Purity Niobium Used for SRF Cavities written by Mingmin Wang and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High purity niobium has been used to fabricate superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities for linear particle accelerator applications for decades due to its high critical temperature (9.3 K) and critical magnetic field. Great progress has been made in achieving high accelerating gradients and quality factors (a measure of efficiency). However, the performance of Nb cavities still suffers from the variability of the material such that high quality factors and accelerating gradients cannot be consistently produced.Trapped magnetic flux is well known for causing significant radio-frequency losses. Both local flux penetration and flux trapping indicate the local suppression of superconductivity. Magnetic flux from both unshielded earth field and thermoelectric currents can be trapped when a cavity is cooled through its superconducting transition temperature. Microstructural defects including hydrogen, grain boundaries, and dislocations are possible causes for flux trapping. However, the details of magnetic flux trapping mechanisms and conditions that enable it are still not clear. Research on this topic has been very active in the SRF community. Cavity studies on flux expulsion after different heat treatments and cooldown procedures have been performed in recent years, but the study of flux trapping mechanisms at the microscopic level is still lacking.In order to study the effect of microscopic defects on flux trapping, single crystal and bicrystal samples were designed with strategically chosen tensile axes to intentionally introduce defects by a 5% tensile strain. Magneto-Optical (MO) Imaging was used to visualize locations where magnetic flux was trapped, and the dislocation substructures were studied using Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging (ECCI).The results show that high angle grain boundaries (HAGB) and low angle grain boundaries (LAGBs) have different flux penetration behaviors. LAGBS could be hydrogen segregation sites leading to precipitation of normal conducting hydrides along LAGBs at ~100-130 K during cooling. In hydrogen contaminated single-crystal samples, large hydride scars (locations where a hydride formed and then dissolved during heating) were observed both at the LAGBs and within the grain after MO cooling; however, only hydrides at the LAGBs appeared to cause premature flux penetration. Flux trapping related to LAGBs could still be observed after the heat treatment removed most of the hydrogen. By contrast, the flux penetration along a HAGB could be turned off by heat treatment that removed hydrogen and restored by reintroducing hydrogen into the sample. This work suggests that HAGBs are not as effective at causing flux penetration or trapping as hydrides and LAGBs.Some deformed bi-crystal samples show correlations between a larger amount of deformation or a higher density of dislocations and more trapped flux. Deformation led to the development of dislocation substructures; however, the effect of dislocation arrangements on flux penetration could not be observed in the current work. Further study with flux measurement techniques of a higher resolution and sensitivity is necessary to understand what kinds of dislocation substructures are most likely to cause flux penetration.
Author : Matthew C. Burton
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Total Pages : 151 pages
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Download or read book Superconducting Thin Films for the Enhancement of Superconducting Radio Frequency Accelerator Cavities written by Matthew C. Burton and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bulk niobium (Nb) superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities are currently the preferred method for acceleration of charged particles at accelerating facilities around the world. However, bulk Nb cavities have poor thermal conductance, impose material and design restrictions on other components of a particle accelerator, have low reproducibility and are approaching the fundamental material-dependent accelerating field limit of approximately 50MV/m. Since the SRF phenomena occurs at surfaces within a shallow depth of ~1 μm, a proposed solution to this problem has been to utilize thin film technology to deposit superconducting thin films on the interior of cavities to engineer the active SRF surface in order to achieve cavities with enhanced properties and performance. Two proposed thin film applications for SRF cavities are: 1) Nb thin films coated on bulk cavities made of suitable castable metals (such as copper or aluminum) and 2) multilayer films designed to increase the accelerating gradient and performance of SRF cavities. While Nb thin films on copper (Cu) cavities have been attempted in the past using DC magnetron sputtering (DCMS), such cavities have never performed at the bulk Nb level. However, new energetic condensation techniques for film deposition, such as High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS), offer the opportunity to create suitably thick Nb films with improved density, microstructure and adhesion compared to traditional DCMS. Clearly use of such novel technique requires fundamental studies to assess surface evolution and growth modes during deposition and resulting microstructure and surface morphology and the correlation with RF superconducting properties. Here we present detailed structure-property correlative research studies done on Nb/Cu thin films and NbN- and NbTiN-based multilayers made using HiPIMS and DCMS, respectively.
Download or read book Production of Seamless Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities from Ultra-fine Grained Niobium, Phase II Final Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The positron and electron linacs of the International Linear Collider (ILC) will require over 14,000, nine-cell, one meter length, superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities [ILC Reference Design Report, 2007]. Manufacturing on this scale will benefit from more efficient fabrication methods. The current methods of fabricating SRF cavities involve deep drawing of the halves of each of the elliptical cells and joining them by high-vacuum, electron beam welding, with at least 19 circumferential welds per cavity. The welding is costly and has undesirable effects on the cavity surfaces, including grain-scale surface roughening at the weld seams. Hydroforming of seamless tubes avoids welding, but hydroforming of coarse-grained seamless tubes results in strain-induced surface roughening. Surface roughness limits accelerating fields, because asperities prematurely exceed the critical magnetic field and become normal conducting. This project explored the technical and economic feasibility of an improved processing method for seamless tubes for hydroforming. Severe deformation of bulk material was first used to produce a fine structure, followed by extrusion and flow-forming methods of tube making. Extrusion of the randomly oriented, fine-grained bulk material proceeded under largely steady-state conditions, and resulted in a uniform structure, which was found to be finer and more crystallographically random than standard (high purity) RRR niobium sheet metal. A 165 mm diameter billet of RRR grade niobium was processed into five, 150 mm I.D. tubes, each over 1.8 m in length, to meet the dimensions used by the DESY ILC hydroforming machine. Mechanical properties met specifications. Costs of prototype tube production were approximately twice the price of RRR niobium sheet, and are expected to be comparable with economies of scale. Hydroforming and superconducting testing will be pursued in subsequent collaborations with DESY and Fermilab. SRF Cavities are used to construct particle accelerators for high-energy physics research, as well as for lower energy particle accelerators, and Free Electron Lasers. These machines have applications in the fields of basic science, industrial processing, medical diagnostics, pharmaceutical research and weapons systems. The scientific community and the general public will benefit from the implementation of this technology since lower production costs will increase the availability of SRF particle accelerators.
Author : David R. Smith
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Total Pages : 94 pages
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Download or read book Surface Studies of Acid-treated Niobium for Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities written by David R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book First-principles Calculations of Niobium Hydride Formation in Superconducting Radio-frequency Cavities written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 95002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niobium hydride is suspected to be a major contributor to degradation of the quality factor of niobium superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities. In this study, we connect the fundamental properties of hydrogen in niobium to SRF cavity performance and processing. We modeled several of the niobium hydride phases relevant to SRF cavities and present their thermodynamic, electronic, and geometric properties determined from calculations based on density-functional theory. We find that the absorption of hydrogen from the gas phase into niobium is exothermic and hydrogen becomes somewhat anionic. The absorption of hydrogen by niobium lattice vacancies is strongly preferred over absorption into interstitial sites. A single vacancy can accommodate six hydrogen atoms in the symmetrically equivalent lowest-energy sites and additional hydrogen in the nearby interstitial sites affected by the strain field: this indicates that a vacancy can serve as a nucleation center for hydride phase formation. Small hydride precipitates may then occur near lattice vacancies upon cooling. Vacancy clusters and extended defects should also be enriched in hydrogen, potentially resulting in extended hydride phase regions upon cooling. We also assess the phase changes in the niobium-hydrogen system based on charge transfer between niobium and hydrogen, the strain field associated with interstitial hydrogen, and the geometry of the hydride phases. The results of this study stress the importance of not only the hydrogen content in niobium, but also the recovery state of niobium for the performance of SRF cavities.
Download or read book Effect of Low Temperature Baking on the RF Properties of Niobium Superconducting Cavities for Particle Accelerators written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radio-frequency superconducting (SRF) cavities are widely used to accelerate a charged particle beam in particle accelerators. The performance of SRF cavities made of bulk niobium has significantly improved over the last ten years and is approaching the theoretical limit for niobium. Nevertheless, RF tests of niobium cavities are still showing some ''anomalous'' losses that require a better understanding in order to reliably obtain better performance. These losses are characterized by a marked dependence of the surface resistance on the surface electromagnetic field and can be detected by measuring the quality factor of the resonator as a function of the peak surface field. A low temperature (100 C-150 C) ''in situ'' bake under ultra-high vacuum has been successfully applied as final preparation of niobium RF cavities by several laboratories over the last few years. The benefits reported consist mainly of an improvement of the cavity quality factor at low field and a recovery from ''anomalous'' losses (so-called ''Q-drop'') without field emission at higher field. A series of experiments with a CEBAF single-cell cavity have been carried out at Jefferson Lab to carefully investigate the effect of baking at progressively higher temperatures for a fixed time on all the relevant material parameters. Measurements of the cavity quality factor in the temperature range 1.37 K-280 K and resonant frequency shift between 6 K-9.3 K provide information about the surface resistance, energy gap, penetration depth and mean free path. The experimental data have been analyzed with the complete BCS theory of superconductivity. The hydrogen content of small niobium samples inserted in the cavity during its surface preparation was analyzed with Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA). The single-cell cavity has been tested at three different temperatures before and after baking to gain some insight on thermal conductivity and Kapitza resistance and the data are compared with different models. This paper describes the results of these experiments and comments on existing models to explain the effect of baking on the performance of niobium RF cavities.
Author : Claude Marshall Lyneis
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Download or read book Experimental Studies of the Microwave Properties of 8.6 GHz Superconducting Niobium written by Claude Marshall Lyneis and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lutz Lilje
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Download or read book Experimental Investigations on Superconducting Niobium Cavities at Highest Radiofrequency Fields written by Lutz Lilje and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wayne R. Hudson
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Download or read book Superconducting Properties of Niobium Films written by Wayne R. Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peng Xu
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Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Investigation of the Thermal Transport in Superconducting Niobium and Tantalum written by Peng Xu and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities fabricated from bulk high purity niobium (Nb) are increasingly used for particle accelerators to achieve continuous operation. Even in the superconducting regime, residual resistance and small imperfections on the RF surface can dissipate energy and cause local heating that leads to cavity quench. Large values of thermal conductivity can mitigate local temperature excursions and prevent cavity quench, thus improving cavity performance. Understanding thermal transport in bulk and thin film superconducting Nb may guide thermal design of current and next generation SRF cavities.The thermal conductivity of metals is composed of electronic and lattice (phonon) components. In normal conductors, the electronic component dominates, and in superconducting metals, as the temperature drops below the critical temperature, phonons become increasingly important carriers of thermal energy. A widely used model of thermal conductivity in superconductors omits explicit accounting of the effect of dislocations, which result from deformation. Here, this model is extended by accounting for the effects of phonons scattered by dislocations independent from boundary scattering. This extended model agrees better with measurements of thermal conductivity in deformed Nb samples, especially at temperatures T less than 3 K. An apparent threshold of dislocation density Nd is found to be Nd = O(1012) m−2 for Nb and when applied to tantalum (Ta), it is Nd = O(1011) m−2. There is little contribution to the thermal conductivity when the dislocation density is less than this threshold. This model can also be used to estimatethe dislocation density by fitting measured values of thermal conductivity.Examination of thermal conductivity data for superconducting Nb shows that there is often a local maximum, a so-called phonon peak, kpp. The temperature at which this kpp occurs Tpp is between 1.72 K and 2.35 K and shifts for samples after deformation. It is well known that the magnitude of kpp decreases as the material is deformed, and hence with increasing Nd. Less cited is that Tpp increases with increasing Nd. This may affect the operating temperature of an SRF cavity. At a certain level deformation (i.e., 4.7% deformation for a residual resistivity ratio RRR = 185), the phonon peak disappears. More deformation is needed for higher RRR, (i.e., greater purity).The models discussed above require estimating several parameters from thermal conductivity measurements and may be best suited to explaining the relative importance of the several scattering mechanisms. For predicting thermal conductivity from basic material variables, the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) is solved by two methods to predict the lattice component of thermal conductivity. One method uses a substitution of variables from frequency to wavevector in the Callaway model to include the nonlinear phonon dispersion relationship for the longitudinal acoustic (LA) and transverse acoustic (TA) phonon polarizations. This model incorporates a relaxation time approximation using Matthiessen's rule to consider phonon scattering by electrons, boundaries, and dislocations. Another method to predict the lattice thermal conductivity uses an energy-based, variance-reduced Monte Carlo (MC) solution to the BTE for phonons. The MC solution allows more general consideration of the individual scattering mechanisms. It may also be generalized for more complex geometries. The MC solution technique was first verified by comparing the predicted thermal conductivity in bulk Si and Si nanowires with experimental results. Both solutions of the BTE for the lattice thermal conductivity of undeformed and deformed superconducting Nb agreed well with experimental values. The MC model was also used to demonstrate that interstitial impurities must be near saturation to change the lattice thermal conductivity of Nb. The MC solution was also effective in predicting the lattice thermal conductivity of superconducting Ta, with the appropriate change in dispersion relation and other material parameters.
Author : Peter Kneisel
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Download or read book Superconducting Radio Frequency Technology written by Peter Kneisel and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superconducting RF cavities are becoming more often the choice for larger scale particle accelerator projects such as linear colliders, energy recovery linacs, free electron lasers or storage rings. Among the many advantages compared to normal conducting copper structures, the superconducting devices dissipate less rf power, permit higher accelerating gradients in CW operation and provide better quality particle beams. In most cases these accelerating cavities are fabricated from high purity bulk niobium, which has superior superconducting properties such as critical temperature and critical magnetic field when compared to other superconducting materials. Research during the last decade has shown, that the metallurgical properties--purity, grain structure, mechanical properties and oxidation behavior--have significant influence on the performance of these accelerating devices. This contribution attempts to give a short overview of the superconducting RF technology with emphasis on the importance of the material properties of the high purity niobium.
Download or read book Investigations of Residual Stresses and Mechanical Properties of Single Crystal Niobium for SRF Cavities written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work investigates properties of large grained, high purity niobium with respect to the forming of superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities from such large grained sheets. The yield stresses were examined using tensile specimens that were essentially single crystals in orientations evenly distributed in the standard projection triangle. No distinct yield anisotropy was found, however, vacuum annealing increased the yield strength by a factor 2.3. The deep drawing forming operation of the half cells raises the issues of elastic shape changes after the release of the forming tool (springback) and residual stresses, both of which are indicated to be negligible. This is a consequence of the low yield stress (
Author : Paul Seidel
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ISBN 13 : 3527670661
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Download or read book Applied Superconductivity written by Paul Seidel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging presentation of applied superconductivity, from fundamentals and materials right up to the details of many applications, is an essential reference for physicists and engineers in academic research as well as in industry. Readers looking for a comprehensive overview on basic effects related to superconductivity and superconducting materials will expand their knowledge and understanding of both low and high Tc superconductors with respect to their application. Technology, preparation and characterization are covered for bulk, single crystals, thins fi lms as well as electronic devices, wires and tapes. The main benefit of this work lies in its broad coverage of significant applications in magnets, power engineering, electronics, sensors and quantum metrology. The reader will find information on superconducting magnets for diverse applications like particle physics, fusion research, medicine, and biomagnetism as well as materials processing. SQUIDs and their usage in medicine or geophysics are thoroughly covered, as are superconducting radiation and particle detectors, aspects on superconductor digital electronics, leading readers to quantum computing and new devices.
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Download or read book Physics and Material Science of Ultra-high Quality Factor Superconducting Resonator written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
