The superconductor accelerator cavity is one of the most important and perspective technology for an advance accelerator. For example, the International Committee for Future Accelerators decided that the Linear Collider design had been based on the superconductor technology. Moreover, the accelerator operating with continue wave (CW) mode must use the superconductor technology in stead of the normal conductor technology, such as the Accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor system (ADS), the Accelerator Transmutation of Waste (ATW), the Accelerator Production of Tritium (APT), and so on.
In order to meet all kinds of application, the scientific world interest is now focus on further developments of new resonant cavities fabrication techniques to reduce cost and improve the performance of the accelerator cavity. To realize this object, one of the important methods is to pursue research on new materials. The goal will be the achievement of superconducting cavity working better the Nb ones at 4.2K. For example, the better parameters of the Tc, the surface resistance, the critical field Hc and the Q value are needed.
Up to now, the most possible candidate is Nb3Sn. The Nb3Sn has not only the better superconductivity parameters, but also the stable property and the easy fabrication. There are two methods to fabricate the superconductor cavity with the Nb3Sn, which are including the diffusion method and the multilayer deposition method. In the thesis, we focus on the multilayer deposition method, and ......
Quantum Computers PART 5 Scanning Tunneling Microscope by Lili SaghafiProfessor Lili Saghafi
Quantum Tunneling
Teleportation
Nano Technology
Qubits build
How do we image or manipulate atoms now
Scanning tunnelling microscope
It has fine metal tips , when you bring it down to atom surface , you apply a voltage , it creates a current, it keeps current constant , move that tip through the atom,
as it move it deflect in height , from that you can image the atom on the surface, and then you raster- scanner it , rather like a television screen
It contains information about Carbon nanotubes which are extensively used in nanotechnology for various puposes. It discusses various types of CNTs along with the three main ways to synthesize them. The three main ways are Arc Discharge, Laser Ablation and Chemical Vapour Deposition. It also discusses various applications os CNTs and their properties.
Analysis Of Carbon Nanotubes And Quantum Dots In A Photovoltaic DeviceM. Faisal Halim
Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes and Quantum Dots in a Photovoltaic Device
A poster prepared by Francis and me; presented by Francis. I modified on of the photographs used, in this copy.
Quantum Computers PART 5 Scanning Tunneling Microscope by Lili SaghafiProfessor Lili Saghafi
Quantum Tunneling
Teleportation
Nano Technology
Qubits build
How do we image or manipulate atoms now
Scanning tunnelling microscope
It has fine metal tips , when you bring it down to atom surface , you apply a voltage , it creates a current, it keeps current constant , move that tip through the atom,
as it move it deflect in height , from that you can image the atom on the surface, and then you raster- scanner it , rather like a television screen
It contains information about Carbon nanotubes which are extensively used in nanotechnology for various puposes. It discusses various types of CNTs along with the three main ways to synthesize them. The three main ways are Arc Discharge, Laser Ablation and Chemical Vapour Deposition. It also discusses various applications os CNTs and their properties.
Analysis Of Carbon Nanotubes And Quantum Dots In A Photovoltaic DeviceM. Faisal Halim
Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes and Quantum Dots in a Photovoltaic Device
A poster prepared by Francis and me; presented by Francis. I modified on of the photographs used, in this copy.
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International Committee for Future Accelerators recommended that the Linear Collider design has to be based on the superconducting technology. And this is the reason why the international scientific society directed efforts to improving superconductive technology and reducing its cost.
In this work, in the framework of researching a valid alternative to Nb for RF superconducting cavities, thin film Nb3Sn has been investigated. The goal will be the achievement of superconducting cavities working better than the Nb ones at 4.2 K.
In order to improve the existing technology of substrates coating by thermally diffused Nb3Sn a new high temperature annealing technology has been developed. In the first part of the work, is given the short theoretical review of RF superconductivity, main superconductors that are used to be a good alternative to a pure Nb and fundamentals of the induction heating theory. Second part is dedicated to the existing double furnace technology, developed in the superconductivity lab in LNL. The influence of preliminary surface treatments like glow discharge of the sample, anodization and chemical etching on the quality of thermally diffused Nb3Sn was studied. And in the third part is given the description of the new induction heating system, suggested for annealing of the 6 GHz cavities. Also in the third part we will go through the results of coating samples and cavities with thermally diffused Nb3Sn with high temperature annealing and the results of the RF – test.
Finally, it is important to mention, that from the very beginning of investigation the induction heating for annealing 6 GHz cavities it became clear that the technology has an enormous potential in producing thermally diffused Nb3Sn.
Particle physics is now at the threshold of great discoveries. The experiments with particle accelerators and observations of the cosmos have focused attention on phenomena that can not be explained by the standard theory. The technology based on superconducting niobium accelerating cavities can reach a high expenditure of energy by many orders of magnitude lower than that of normal-conducting copper cavities. Even taking into account the power spent to maintain the temperature of liquid helium, the net gain in economic terms is still unassailable.
The sputtering technology was chosen first in the pure diode configuration and subsequently in the magnetron configuration. High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HIPIMS) is an evolution of the magnetron technique which relies on 100μs high voltage pulses of the order of 1 kV compared to the 300 V of the standard DC magnetron process. During the pulse a huge power density is deposited onto the target, of the order of a few kW/cm2 compared to a few W/cm2 of the standard DC process, producing a highly dense plasma in which also the Nb atoms are partially ionized. These can in turn be attracted to the substrate with a suitable bias. A further advantage of the technique lies in the fact that no hardware changes are required compared to a standard DC biased magnetron system, except for the obvious replacement of the power supply.
In this work, an R&D effort has been undertaken to study the HIPIMS, to improve it and understand the correlation between the parameters applied and the film morphology, the superconducting properties and the RF film quality.
The experiment system is based on the NEW HIGH-RATE SYSTEM for the deposition cavity 1.5 GHz. The experimental details and the measurements of the characteristics of the deposited films are described. Even though the work is still in progress, all of the partial results from now on have been analyzed and commented, in order to extrapolate all the information. The final results are a global overview of the HIPIMS techniques for Nb on 1.5Hz superconducting cavity. Suggestions for future efforts have been included as part of the conclusions.
Synthesis of Nanoparticles an Overew, a Review Articleijtsrd
Nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary subject. A large number of techniques like physical, mechanical, chemical, biological and hybrid are available to synthesize different types of nanomatericals. Synthesized nanoparticles are in the form of colloids, clusters, powders, tubes, rods, wires and thin films etc. The technique to be used depends upon the material of interest, type of nanomaterial, size and quantity. A full potential of this technology can be exploited for the advantage of mankind. However, to fully exploire the potential of nanotechnology, it is essential to know what are nanomaterials, how these materials can be synthesized. An attempt is made for this by giving some of techniques used to synthesize nanomaterials by this review article. S. D. Jadhav | I A Shaikh ""Synthesis of Nanoparticles an Overew, a Review Article"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd22816.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/chemistry/other/22816/synthesis-of-nanoparticles-an-overew-a-review-article/s-d-jadhav
Calculation of Optical Properties of Nano ParticlePHYSICS 5535- .docxRAHUL126667
Calculation of Optical Properties of Nano Particle
PHYSICS 5535- Optical Properties Matter-Spring 2017
Raznah Yami
Outline
1. Introduction: this part gives a precise overview of the whole paper. It begins by illustrating a brief introduction and importance of Nano Particles and the theoretical approaches used for their calculation.
2. Main idea: this section provides a step-by-step in-depth analysis of recently developed theories the calculation of optical properties of nanoparticles. It also provides calculation and equations employed these approaches.
2.1 Optical Properties of Nanoparticles: this section talks about the basics principles and governing the optical behavior of Nano particles and provides in-depth knowledge of different phenomena observed while dealing with optical properties of Nano particles.
2.2 Mie-Theory: the research provides exhaustive information the study optical properties of nanoparticles using Mie theory. This research focuses on Mie theory for the calculation of optical properties of Nano particle according to which we can calculate the place of surface Plasmon resonance in optical spectra of metallic spherical nanoparticle.
2.3 Discrete Dipole Approximation method: this section enumerates sufficient information about the calculation of absorption and scattering efficiencies and optical resonance wavelengths for three commonly used classes of nanoparticles: gold Nano spheres, silica-gold Nano shells, and gold Nano rods and we examine the magneto-optical scattering from nanometer-scale structures using a discrete dipole approximation.
3. Conclusion: This section provides a summary of the most important points, which presents an overview of the practical application and calculation methods of optical properties of Nano particles talking about core principles, which therefore explain the behavior exhibited by nanoparticles.
List of figures:
Figure 1: Localized surface Plasmon resonance ,resulting from the collective oscillations of delocalized electrons in response to an external electric field
Figure 2: Absorption spectra of semiconductor nanoparticles of different diameter. Right-nanoparticles suspended in solution.
Figure 3: Comparison of absorbance along increasing wavelength between Nano GaAs (7-15 nm) and Bulk GaAs showing an apparent blue shift
Figure 4: Showing the effect of blue shift because of quantum confinement as the wavelength shifts from 1100 nm to 2000 nm when we move from particle size of 9nm to parcile size of 3 nm.
Figure 5: Emission spectra of several sizes of (Cdse) Zns core-shell quantum dots.
Figure 6: The optical spectra and transmission electron micrographs for the particles in vials 1–5 are also shown. Scale bars in micrographs are all 100 nm
Figure7: Shows the effect of varying relative core and shell thickness of gold Nano Shells, there is an apparent blue shift as the frequency increases
References:
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There is no dubt that the subject of superconducting resonant cavities is a fascinating field both physical and engineering point of view.
The application of superconductivity to the world of resonant cavities has made achievable results unimaginable otherwise.
Independently of the special field of application, superconducting resonant circuits have superior performances compared to roo-temperatire circuits.
However the greatest resource of such devices stays not in the high quality of the results already obtained, but in all potential applications and new ideas that must be still developed.
When hearing about persistent currents recirculating for several year in a superconducting loop without any appreciable decay, we realize that we are dealing with a phenomenon wich in nature is the closest we know to the perpetual motion.
The zero resistivity and the perfect diamagnetism in Mercury at 4.2 K, the discovery of superconducting materials, finally the revolution of the "liquid Nitrogen superconductivity": Nature discloses drop by drop its intimate secrets.
Nobody can exclude that the final surpreise must still come.
This works deals with the A15 compound synthesis on niobium samples and over the
internal surface of niobium cavities by means of induction heating. Specifically, three compounds were studied: Nb3Ga, Nb3Al and Nb-Al-Ga. As for the preparation of the niobium samples, they were treated with BCP solution in order to polish the surface. The niobium cavities were treated with centrifugal tumbling, BCP solution and high pressure water rising. Subsequent, the samples, or cavities, were placed into an inductor controlling the voltage, time, sample position, temperature, type and pressure of gas used. The highest critical temperature
obtained was 18 K and Tc 0,35 K, in Nb-Al-Ga#1 sample by inductive measurement.
Mapping analysis showed the uniform diffusion of aluminum into the niobium, and the gallium diffuses creating channels into niobium. The composition was measured by EDS obtaining (82±1)% wt. Niobium, (11,3±0,9)% wt. Gallium, (4,7±0,2)% wt. Aluminum and (1,9±0,1)% wt. Oxygen. Finally, RF test confirmed that the cavities obtained after the annealing were normal conductive indicating that the preparation parameters must still be optimized.
In questi ultimi anni i problemi energetici e ambientali hanno favorito lo sviluppo di un nuovo settore della ricerca riguardo la produzione di energia pulita sfruttando fenomeni naturali. L'attenzione dei ricercatori è stata catturata dalla possibilità di convertire l'energia solare luminosa
in energia elettrica. Questo processo di conversione, nato nella prima metà del XX secolo, permette di produrre correnti elettriche anche in piccola scala, senza la realizzazione di imponenti impianti industriali e soprattutto senza la produzione si scorie inquinanti. Sono nate così le prime celle solari
a effetto fotovoltaico.
Gli sviluppi hanno portato a diversi risultati e al giorno d'oggi l'energia fotovoltaica ha ormai fatto il suo ingresso nella vita quotidiana. Sia i favori delle industrie, sia l'interesse dei privati cittadini, contribuiscono a espandere questo tipo di ricerca, ottenendo numerosi successi nell'aumento
dell'efficienza di conversione energetica. Dal punto di vista della scienza dei materiali la prima cosa che viene in mente pensando alle celle
fotovoltaiche è il silicio. A tutti gli effetti la maggior parte delle celle sul commercio sono costituite da silicio policristallino, per le sue ottime qualità e proprietà di resa. Tuttavia esistono anche una moltitudine di altri composti, alcuni più recenti di altri, che sono ancora nell'occhio dei ricercatori, un esempio ne sono i recenti foto-materiali organici. Spesso però i costi di realizzazione sono alti per ottenere rese elevate, rendendo così proibitive le realizzazioni su impianti industriali. L'ossido rameoso (Cu2O) è stato uno dei capostipiti dei materiali utilizzati nelle celle fotovoltaiche.
Fin dal suo primo utilizzo nel 1958 esso ha presentato le caratteristiche di semiconduttore necessarie alla realizzazione di impianti fotovoltaici. Rispetto ai sui cugini più nobili, presenta delle efficienze minori, ma anche un costo decisamente più basso. Il rame infatti, da innumerevoli anni, è un elemento largamente sfruttato in tutti i campi dell'elettronica e non solo, e la realizzazione di ossidi specifici non comporta processi troppo complessi o costosi.
La ricerca nel campo dell'ossido rameoso è riuscita a migliorare le sue qualità all'interno del mondo fotovoltaico rendendo possibile la realizzazione di celle solari a costi contenuti.
Per questo motivo il Cu2O è tutt'oggi un materiale in grado di competere nel moderno panorama della ricerca solare fotovoltaica.
Il plasma è un supporto particolarmente attivo dal punto di vista chimico e fisico. In base al modo con cui viene attivato e alla potenza di lavoro, può generare temperature basse o molto elevate e viene definito rispettivamente come plasma freddo o caldo. Quest’ampio range di temperature lo rende adatto a numerose applicazioni tecnologiche: rivestimento di superficie, smaltimento rifiuti, trattamento dei gas, sintesi chimiche, lavorazioni industriali. La maggior parte di queste applicazioni del plasma non sono ancora state industrializzate, sebbene il loro sfruttamento rispetti strettamente le norme sull’inquinamento.
I plasmi caldi (specialmente quelli ad arco) sono ampiamente industrializzati, con particolare diffusione all’interno del settore aereonautico. La tecnologia dei plasmi freddi è stata sviluppata in microelettronica, ma le apparecchiature da vuoto richieste ne limitano l’applicabilità.
Al fine di evitare l’inconveniente associato al vuoto, molti laboratori hanno provato a trasferire a pressione atmosferica processi che attualmente lavorano in vuoto. Le ricerche condotte hanno portato alla scoperta di varie ed innovative sorgenti che verranno descritte in questo elaborato.
Dopo un riassunto sui differenti tipi di plasmi, saranno descritte le varie sorgenti in termini di design, condizioni di lavoro e proprietà del plasma. In seguito l’attenzione sarà spostata sulle varie applicazioni (analisi spettroscopica, trattamento dei gas e processi sui materiali).
The lowest possible surface resistivity and higher accelerating field are the paramount
considerations, hence are obligatory for accelerating cavities. Since, superconducting materials
are used to make radio-frequency cavities for future accelerators. In the case of rf cavities,
superconductors are being used in order to minimize the power dissipated and increase the
figures of merit of a radio-frequency cavity, such as the quality factor and accelerating gradient.
Hence, these could be achieved by improving surface treatment to the cavity, and processing
techniques must be analyzed in order to optimize these figures of merit.
The research work reported in this dissertation mainly carried out on tesla type seamless 6GHz
Nb and Cu cavities. We have developed two innovative techniques: firstly, for mechanical
polishing of cavities, and secondly for purification of these cavities at atmospheric pressure under
cover of 4Helium gas (for protection) and at ultra-high vacuum (UHV) system. These cavities are
fabricated by spinning technology to create seamless cavities.
The main advantages of 6 GHz bulk-Nb cavities are saving cost, materials and time to collect
statistics of surface treatments and RF test in a very short time scale. Cavities are RF tested
before and after high temperature treatment under atmospheric pressure (under cover of inert gas
atmosphere to protect inner and outer surface of cavity) inside transparent quartz tube, and under
UHV conditions. Induction heating method is used to anneal the cavity at temperatures higher
than 2000°C and close to the melting point of Nb for less than a minute while few seconds at
maximum temperature. Before RF test and UHV annealing, the surface treatment processes like
tumbling, chemical, electro-chemical (such as BCP and EP), ultrasonic cleaning and high
pressure rinsing (HPR) have been employed. High temperature treatment for few minutes at
atmospheric pressure allow to reduce hydrogen, oxygen and other elemental impurities, which
effects on cavity Q-factor degradation, hence recovers rf performances of these cavities. This
research work will address these problems and illustrate the importance of surface treatments.
6 GHz spun seamless Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) cavities are a very
useful tool for testing alternative surface treatments in the fabrication of TESLA cavity.
However, the spinning technique has also some drawbacks like contamination, surface
damage in internal part due to the collapsible mandrel line. The first important step of
the surface treatments is the mechanical polishing. For this purpose, a new, cheap, easy
and highly efficient tumbling approach based on vibration was developed.
Before this approach was conceived, a few other methods, such as Turbula,
Centrifugal Barrel Polishing (CBP), custom Zigzag tumbler and “flower brush” have
been studied and tested. But the result was not so satisfactory neither for the low erosion
rate nor for the unstableness of the system nor for the complicated polishing process. At
last, a vibration system with a simple structure, working stably was created after two
experiments.
Another important task of the thesis is to update the optical inspection system for 6
GHz cavities. 3 stepper motors motor was added to move and rotate the cavity and
realized auto focus of the miniature camera. A software was developed to achieve a full
cavity photographed by one key operation using LabVIEW.
A high-efficiency mechanical polishing system is generally judged by two aspects:
one is whether the surface property satisfies the demand after polishing; the other is
whether the erosion rate can reach and be stabilized at a high value which is comparable
or greater than the existing products. The Radio Frequency (RF) test result indicates that
the vibration system is feasible. The latest erosion rate 1 gram/hour i.e. removing 13
microns depth of inner surface materials per hour exceeds the performance of CBP,
which is widely used in other laboratories in the world.
The mechanical polishing process is elaborated and cavities that have been polished
are listed. Several influencing factors on the erosion rate, such as tumbling time, media,
signal and multi-cavities and plate direction are discussed at the end.
A preliminary design of 1.3 GHz vibration system as the future development is
provided for the next plan.
In questo lavoro di tesi verrà presentato un primo prototipo di un mini inceneritore al plasma per la pirolisi dei rifiuti medicali basato sulla tecnologia delle torce al plasma a microonde (MW) con tecnologia domestica a basso costo.
Si inizia con una breve e generale descrizione sulle problematiche dei rifiuti, della loro classificazione e delle norme che ne regolano lo smaltimento. Quindi si parlerà delle norme necessarie per l‟identificazione dei rifiuti medicali ed infine verrà riassunta la modalità di gestione dei rifiuti secondo la normativa in vigore.
Successivamente saranno descritti alcuni metodi di termodistruzione dei rifiuti ospedalieri come la combustione negli inceneritori tradizionali, e alcuni metodi alternativi, come il trattamento al plasma atmosferico, andando ad analizzare vantaggi e svantaggi di ogni tecnologia.
L‟attenzione sarà quindi focalizzata sul plasma atmosferico e sulla descrizione delle sue proprietà. Quindi saranno descritti diversi tipi di plasma atmosferico in base alle condizioni operative di alimentazione e delle loro strutture concentrando le nostre attenzioni verso le torce al plasma atmosferico basate sulle microonde.
Quindi si descriverà la realizzazione di una torcia al plasma atmosferico utilizzando i componenti a basso costo dei normali forni a microonde e con l‟obbiettivo di utilizzare questa torcia sia nel settore industriale che nella ricerca.
Tale torcia, realizzata con componenti commerciali domestici a basso costo, costituirà il cuore del prototipo di mini inceneritore che è stato progettato, realizzato, descritto e testato in laboratorio. Verrà quindi illustrata l‟efficacia di trattamento di materiale rappresentativo di rifiuti medicali come: carta, cotone idrofilo e tessuti organici biologici.
Infine verranno descritte le linee guida per gli sviluppi futuri del prototipo al fine di aumentarne l‟efficienza nel trattamento dei rifiuti, nel recupero dell‟energia derivante dalla combustione dei syn-gas e nella purificazione dei gas da agenti inquinanti.
The subject of present Master Work is the thermomechanical design of a high power neutron converter for the SPIRAL2 Facility, which is being developed in collaboration with the INFN – Italy and GANIL – France.
The main objective is description of an general overview about the project and its main goals. The SPIRAL2 is a linear particle accelerator for the production of high intensity exotic ion beams. It will be under operation in the existing installations of the GANIL Institute in Caen, France. Therefore a neutron converter target has been designed and it must produce 1014 fissions/second, at a working temperature up to 1850°C. Available deuteron beam for the operation of this accelerator has a power up to 200 kW and all the calculations and tests around the main critical elements of the neutron converter module are explained in the next sections of this document.
Superconducting technique has been widely applied to linac particle accelerators for more than two decades. Cryogenic RF performance of SC cavities has been improved a lot due to improvement on purification of SC material, as well as SC cavity design, fabrication and surface treatment techniques. The Sputtering technique of SC cavities provided another chance to particle accelerators: the cost of cavity fabrication greatly decreased, while the performances of sputtering coated niobium cavities are competitive with those of bulk material SC cavities.
In this thesis some important features of RF cavities are briefly introduced; the difference in design of a SC cavity and that of a normal conducting cavity are indicated. The design parameters of a 144 MHz SC QWR and an 1.5GHz monocell spherical cavity are presented. The SC material for cavity fabrication, and measurement method of SC cavity are introduced, then the fabrication and surface treatment technique of SC cavities are discussed.
The application of sputtering technique in SC cavities is a recent development of SRF technique. After nearly two decades study, the sputtering coated niobium film SC cavities achieved a cryogenic RF performance close to that of bulk niobium cavities. The thesis introduced various sputtering techniques on this purpose from preliminary glow discharge, discusses the LNL, Peking University and Australia National University’s QWR sputtering configurations, and introduces LNL’s surface treatment technique for copper substrate cavity.
In the study of niobium sputtering for 1.5GHz monocell spherical cavity, different magnetron configurations were tried and measured a large amount of sputtered niobium samples. By improving the magnetron configuration and surface treatment technique of the substrate cavity, sputtered niobium cavities with better RF performance were obtained. It was found out that substrate surface treatment takes a very important role in the sputtering of a SC cavity, as sample measurement cannot give out helpful information of the RF performance, the study with substrate
Il forno in alto vuoto della TAV è stato costruito per l’Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare agli inizi degli anni novanta ed è installato presso i Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (PD) nello stabilimento Alte Energie.
E’ stato realizzato in collaborazione con la ditta milanese TAV, che ha sede a Caravaggio (MI), specializzata nella produzione di forni in vuoto. E’ stato così possibile realizzare un forno mai costruito prima e che rispondeva appieno alle esigenze richieste.
Il forno in vuoto allora in uso era un modello a caricamento orizzontale le cui pareti interne e le resistenze erano realizzate in grafite. Da allora il vecchio forno è stato congedato, mentre il nuovo impianto è entrato subito in funzione per eseguire le brasature e i trattamenti termici sulle cavità acceleratici superconduttive a quarto d’onda dell’impianto Alpi.
Da allora fino ad oggi, il nuovo forno è sempre stato operativo, e grazie ad esso è stato possibile realizzare una grande varietà di trattamenti termici e brasature, per le più svariate applicazioni e impieghi.
La tecnologia degli acceleratori di particelle è tradizionalmente un serbatoio da cui attingere per il trasferimento di conoscenze tecniche dall’ambito della ricerca di base all’industria; in questo campo i Laboratori Nazionali de Legnaro dell’Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (LNL – INFN) vantano una lunga esperienza come ente di ricerca di alto livello sia in ambito italiano che internazionale, nello sviluppo di nuove tecniche di accelerazione e nell’applicazione di conoscenze e metodologie tipiche della scienza dei materiali al campo degli acceleratori di particelle. Il master in Trattamenti di superficie applicati a tecnologie meccaniche innovative per l’industria si inserisce in questo contesto e funge da ponte per il trasferimento del bagaglio di conoscenze maturate durante gli anni per il trattamento dei materiali delle cavità acceleratrici a realtà industriali presenti sul territorio nazionale.
Il trattamento superficiale di una cavità acceleratrice superconduttiva è un passaggio fondamentale nella sua realizzazione, in quanto predispone lo strato superficiale del risonatore stesso a sostenere le condizioni di vuoto, temperatura ed alti campi elettrici presenti durante il funzionamento nell’acceleratore; questi trattamenti presuppongono un’approfondita conoscenza della scienza dei materiali ed una robusta preparazione di tipo applicativo oltre che teorico.
Il lavoro di questa tesi prende l’avvio da due istanze fondamentali, cioè
dall’applicazione delle conoscenze fisiche, chimiche e meccaniche apprese nel corso del master e dalla tradizione nello sviluppo di nuove tecniche di accelerazione dei Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro con il fine di realizzare e caratterizzare un nuovo tipo di strutture acceleranti basate sul concetto di cristallo fotonico o photonic band gap (PBG) applicato alle microonde.
Durante questo lavoro si sono quindi realizzati alcuni prototipi di cavità PBG risuonanti a 14 e 6 GHz, in rame ed in niobio superconduttivo, sviluppando un metodo realizzativo che permettesse di evitare il ricorso a costose saldature electron beam; le cavità così realizzate sono state trattate superficialmente adattando il protocollo di trattamento utilizzato per altre cavità costruite nei Laboratori e studiando nuove strade tecniche per la loro finitura superficiale. Infine si è proceduto ad adattare i sistemi criogenici e RF
integrandoli per caratterizzare le cavità costruite.Questo progetto si inserisce in una collaborazione fra i Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
e la sezione INFN di Napoli, che ha fornito il supporto teorico sulla teoria dei cristalli fotonici applicati agli acceleratori e ha contribuito al progetto delle cavità attraverso le simulazioni dei campi elettromagnetici in cavità; il gruppo di legnaro si è occupato, oltre che della costruzione, dei trattamenti di superficie e delle misure, anche della parte riguardante la superconduttività in Radiofrequenza.
L’obiettivo di questo lavoro consiste nella progettazione e costruzione di un sistema UHV multicamera per la deposizione di film sottili. La tecnica
utilizzata per crescere i ricoprimenti sottili in questo caso è l’arco catodico continuo e pulsato. Questa tecnica permette di depositare film di elevato spessore in tempi estremamente veloci. La sorgente è pressoché puntiforme in confronto allo sputtering ed i film possono essere più spessi e più puri.
L’arc vapour deposition è una tecnica di deposizione di film sottiliche cade nella grande famiglia del PVD. Essa consiste nella vaporizzazione, da un elettrodo, del materiale che si vuole depositare per mezzo di un arco. La tecnica è veloce, efficiente e relativamente poco costosa: di conseguenza è uno dei metodi più usati a livello industriale per ottenere deposizioni di film sottili con ottime proprietà meccaniche.
Negli ultimi anni si stanno effettuando numerose ricerche, sia sperimentali sia
teoriche, al fine di mettere in evidenza come questa tecnica possa essere molto utile per produrre dei film sottili in grado di aumentare le proprietà fisiche e chimiche dei rivestimenti (come ad esempio un aumento della densità, un miglioramento dell’adesione al substrato, della stechiometria dei composti e di ulteriori caratteristiche chimico-fisiche).
In particolare la letteratura russa tratta numerosi esempi di come la tecnica
dell’arco, proprio grazie all’alto grado di ionizzazione dei vapori prodotti, renda possibile la produzione di rivestimenti con determinate proprietà chimico-fisiche e strutturali per particolari condizioni di processo, non altrimenti ottenibili con altre tecniche competitive quali il magnetron sputtering o l’evaporazione tramite electron beam Come si vedrà in
seguito, infatti, l’arc vapour deposition ha il grandissimo vantaggio di controllare non solo la ionizzazione degli atomi che si vogliono depositare, attraverso una combinazione di campi elettrici e magnetici, ma anche l’energia con la quale gli ioni arrivano sul substrato.
Le sorgenti ad arco vengono inoltre utilizzate come sorgenti per LRQ EHDP che
devono produrre elevate densità di corrente.
Nel mondo industriale, infatti, questa tecnica riscuote molto interesse.Il deposito tramite arco catodico è un processo fisico sottovuoto che consente la
crescita di film duri, compatti ed aderenti su un ampio spettro di materiali al di sotto dei 300°C: Il film, estremamente sottile, ha durezze da 1000 a 3500 HV: le applicazioni industriali sono molte e variano dalla ricopertura di utensili da taglio agli tampi per le materie plastiche e lavorazioni meccaniche, da prodotti d’arredamento (maniglie, copri interruttori, pomoli, etc.) a componentistica da bagno (rubinetti, docce, tubi, etc.).
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Fu una scoperta sensazionale quando Jun Akimitsu e colleghi annunciarono la loro scoperta nel gennaio 2001 che il diboruro di magnesio diveniva superconduttore attorno ai 40 K. L’interesse degli autori era inizialmente rivolto verso il semiconduttore CaB6 , il quale diviene ferromagnetico a seguito di trattamento leggero di doping. La loro intenzione era quella di sostituire parzialmente degli atomi di carbonio con altri di magnesio, omologo come shells elettronici ma più leggero, e gli parve conveniente utilizzare il diboruro di magnesio (ben noto sin dal 1953) per questo scopo.
L’aspetto interessante è che il magnesio diboruro è un composto molto usato nelle reazioni di sintesi del boro, dei borani, o di bururi di metalli di transizione e facilmente reperibile in qualsiasi laboratorio di chimica. E’ dunque facile immaginarsi lo stupore del mondo scientifico quando fu
comunicato che il MgB2 diviene superconduttore a temperature mai raggiunte sino ad allora da sistemi basati su semplici leghe intermetalliche non ossidate. Le fievoli speranze ed il derivante
mitigato interesse che vi era attorno ai superconduttori all’inizio della seconda metà del 1900 era dovuto soprattutto a due figure ....
Richard's entangled aventures in wonderlandRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
Richard's aventures in two entangled wonderlandsRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
(May 29th, 2024) Advancements in Intravital Microscopy- Insights for Preclini...Scintica Instrumentation
Intravital microscopy (IVM) is a powerful tool utilized to study cellular behavior over time and space in vivo. Much of our understanding of cell biology has been accomplished using various in vitro and ex vivo methods; however, these studies do not necessarily reflect the natural dynamics of biological processes. Unlike traditional cell culture or fixed tissue imaging, IVM allows for the ultra-fast high-resolution imaging of cellular processes over time and space and were studied in its natural environment. Real-time visualization of biological processes in the context of an intact organism helps maintain physiological relevance and provide insights into the progression of disease, response to treatments or developmental processes.
In this webinar we give an overview of advanced applications of the IVM system in preclinical research. IVIM technology is a provider of all-in-one intravital microscopy systems and solutions optimized for in vivo imaging of live animal models at sub-micron resolution. The system’s unique features and user-friendly software enables researchers to probe fast dynamic biological processes such as immune cell tracking, cell-cell interaction as well as vascularization and tumor metastasis with exceptional detail. This webinar will also give an overview of IVM being utilized in drug development, offering a view into the intricate interaction between drugs/nanoparticles and tissues in vivo and allows for the evaluation of therapeutic intervention in a variety of tissues and organs. This interdisciplinary collaboration continues to drive the advancements of novel therapeutic strategies.
The increased availability of biomedical data, particularly in the public domain, offers the opportunity to better understand human health and to develop effective therapeutics for a wide range of unmet medical needs. However, data scientists remain stymied by the fact that data remain hard to find and to productively reuse because data and their metadata i) are wholly inaccessible, ii) are in non-standard or incompatible representations, iii) do not conform to community standards, and iv) have unclear or highly restricted terms and conditions that preclude legitimate reuse. These limitations require a rethink on data can be made machine and AI-ready - the key motivation behind the FAIR Guiding Principles. Concurrently, while recent efforts have explored the use of deep learning to fuse disparate data into predictive models for a wide range of biomedical applications, these models often fail even when the correct answer is already known, and fail to explain individual predictions in terms that data scientists can appreciate. These limitations suggest that new methods to produce practical artificial intelligence are still needed.
In this talk, I will discuss our work in (1) building an integrative knowledge infrastructure to prepare FAIR and "AI-ready" data and services along with (2) neurosymbolic AI methods to improve the quality of predictions and to generate plausible explanations. Attention is given to standards, platforms, and methods to wrangle knowledge into simple, but effective semantic and latent representations, and to make these available into standards-compliant and discoverable interfaces that can be used in model building, validation, and explanation. Our work, and those of others in the field, creates a baseline for building trustworthy and easy to deploy AI models in biomedicine.
Bio
Dr. Michel Dumontier is the Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University, founder and executive director of the Institute of Data Science, and co-founder of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data principles. His research explores socio-technological approaches for responsible discovery science, which includes collaborative multi-modal knowledge graphs, privacy-preserving distributed data mining, and AI methods for drug discovery and personalized medicine. His work is supported through the Dutch National Research Agenda, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Horizon Europe, the European Open Science Cloud, the US National Institutes of Health, and a Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network. He is the editor-in-chief for the journal Data Science and is internationally recognized for his contributions in bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and semantic technologies including ontologies and linked data.
Introduction:
RNA interference (RNAi) or Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS) is an important biological process for modulating eukaryotic gene expression.
It is highly conserved process of posttranscriptional gene silencing by which double stranded RNA (dsRNA) causes sequence-specific degradation of mRNA sequences.
dsRNA-induced gene silencing (RNAi) is reported in a wide range of eukaryotes ranging from worms, insects, mammals and plants.
This process mediates resistance to both endogenous parasitic and exogenous pathogenic nucleic acids, and regulates the expression of protein-coding genes.
What are small ncRNAs?
micro RNA (miRNA)
short interfering RNA (siRNA)
Properties of small non-coding RNA:
Involved in silencing mRNA transcripts.
Called “small” because they are usually only about 21-24 nucleotides long.
Synthesized by first cutting up longer precursor sequences (like the 61nt one that Lee discovered).
Silence an mRNA by base pairing with some sequence on the mRNA.
Discovery of siRNA?
The first small RNA:
In 1993 Rosalind Lee (Victor Ambros lab) was studying a non- coding gene in C. elegans, lin-4, that was involved in silencing of another gene, lin-14, at the appropriate time in the
development of the worm C. elegans.
Two small transcripts of lin-4 (22nt and 61nt) were found to be complementary to a sequence in the 3' UTR of lin-14.
Because lin-4 encoded no protein, she deduced that it must be these transcripts that are causing the silencing by RNA-RNA interactions.
Types of RNAi ( non coding RNA)
MiRNA
Length (23-25 nt)
Trans acting
Binds with target MRNA in mismatch
Translation inhibition
Si RNA
Length 21 nt.
Cis acting
Bind with target Mrna in perfect complementary sequence
Piwi-RNA
Length ; 25 to 36 nt.
Expressed in Germ Cells
Regulates trnasposomes activity
MECHANISM OF RNAI:
First the double-stranded RNA teams up with a protein complex named Dicer, which cuts the long RNA into short pieces.
Then another protein complex called RISC (RNA-induced silencing complex) discards one of the two RNA strands.
The RISC-docked, single-stranded RNA then pairs with the homologous mRNA and destroys it.
THE RISC COMPLEX:
RISC is large(>500kD) RNA multi- protein Binding complex which triggers MRNA degradation in response to MRNA
Unwinding of double stranded Si RNA by ATP independent Helicase
Active component of RISC is Ago proteins( ENDONUCLEASE) which cleave target MRNA.
DICER: endonuclease (RNase Family III)
Argonaute: Central Component of the RNA-Induced Silencing Complex (RISC)
One strand of the dsRNA produced by Dicer is retained in the RISC complex in association with Argonaute
ARGONAUTE PROTEIN :
1.PAZ(PIWI/Argonaute/ Zwille)- Recognition of target MRNA
2.PIWI (p-element induced wimpy Testis)- breaks Phosphodiester bond of mRNA.)RNAse H activity.
MiRNA:
The Double-stranded RNAs are naturally produced in eukaryotic cells during development, and they have a key role in regulating gene expression .
1. ISTITUTO NAZIONALE
DI FISICA NUCLEARE
Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
Student: Jinhai Li
Matr. N°: 938770
I
in collaboration with Confindustria Veneto
MASTER THESIS
in
“Surface Treatments for Industrial Applications”
Magnetron sputtering of Superconducting Multilayer
Nb3Sn Thin Film
Supervisor: Prof. V. Palmieri
Co-Supervisor: Dr. A.A.Rossi
Academic Year 2009-10
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI
STUDI DI PADOVA
Facoltà di Scienze MM.NN.FF.
Facoltà di Ingegneria
3. III
题西林壁
宋 • 苏轼
横看成岭侧成峰,
远近高低各不同,
不识庐山真面目,
只缘身在此山中。
A Poem Inscribed on the Wall of a Monastery
Song Dynasty • Su Shi
Regard the mountains as a range from the front
and peaks from the side;
The mountain looks different when changing
your viewpoint from afar or near, from up or down;
One cannot recognize the true appearance of
Lushan Mount;
It is just because that you are in the mountains.
7. VII
Index
INDEX.................................................................................................................................................VII
INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................................1
CHAPTER 1 AN INTRODUCTION OF SUPERCONDUCTOR CAVITY......................................2
1.1 THE NECESSARY OF SUPERCONDUCTOR RF ACCELERATOR ..............................................................2
1.2 THE PERFORMANCE OF THE NEEDED SUPERCONDUCTOR CAVITY .....................................................4
1.3 THE NECESSARY OF NB3SN SUPERCONDUCTOR THIN FILM...............................................................7
CHAPTER 2 INTRODUCTION: HOW TO SPUTTER NB THIN FILM .....................................20
2.1 TECHNIQUE OF THE VACUUM.........................................................................................................20
2.2 NB THIN FILM ON SAPPHIRE ...........................................................................................................26
2.2.1 Sputtering configuration .......................................................................................................26
2.2.2 Deposition parameter............................................................................................................29
2.2.3 Analysis and results...............................................................................................................30
2.2.3.1 Thickness measurement .................................................................................................................30
2.2.3.2 Tc measurement..............................................................................................................................31
2.2.3.3 XRD analysis .................................................................................................................................35
2.3 DISCUSSION...................................................................................................................................40
CHAPTER 3 MULTILAYER DEPOSITION OF NB3SN.................................................................41
3.1 TECHNIQUE OF DEPOSITION...........................................................................................................41
3.2 DEPOSITION ON SAPPHIRE .............................................................................................................42
3.2.1 Deposition parameter............................................................................................................42
3.2.2 Vacuum annealing .................................................................................................................43
3.2.2.1 The technique description of lamp annealing .................................................................................44
3.2.2.2 Analysis result ................................................................................................................................47
3.3 DEPOSITION ON NB SAMPLE ..........................................................................................................54
3.3.1 Deposition parameter............................................................................................................56
3.3.2 Annealing with inductor ........................................................................................................56
3.3.3 Analysis result .......................................................................................................................59
3.3.3.1 Tc measurement..............................................................................................................................59
3.3.3.2 XRD analysis .................................................................................................................................65
3.4 CONCLUSION.................................................................................................................................72
9. 1
Introduction
The superconductor accelerator cavity is one of the most important and
perspective technology for an advance accelerator. For example, the International
Committee for Future Accelerators decided that the Linear Collider design had been
based on the superconductor technology. Moreover, the accelerator operating with
continue wave (CW) mode must use the superconductor technology in stead of the
normal conductor technology, such as the Accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor
system (ADS), the Accelerator Transmutation of Waste (ATW), the Accelerator
Production of Tritium (APT), and so on.
In order to meet all kinds of application, the scientific world interest is now focus
on further developments of new resonant cavities fabrication techniques to reduce cost
and improve the performance of the accelerator cavity. To realize this object, one of
the important methods is to pursue research on new materials. The goal will be the
achievement of superconducting cavity working better the Nb ones at 4.2K. For
example, the better parameters of the Tc, the surface resistance, the critical field Hc
and the Q value are needed.
Up to now, the most possible candidate is Nb3Sn. The Nb3Sn has not only the
better superconductivity parameters, but also the stable property and the easy
fabrication. There are two methods to fabricate the superconductor cavity with the
Nb3Sn, which are including the diffusion method and the multilayer deposition
method. In the thesis, we focus on the multilayer deposition method, and the content
of each chapter is followed:
In chapter 1, we discuss why we select the Nb3Sn as the function material for the
superconductor cavity fabrication.
In chapter 2, we first investigate the Nb thin film deposition on the sapphire, and
analysis the result of the deposition experiment.
In chapter 3, the Nb3Sn multilayer thin film is first deposited on the sapphire, and
then deposited on the Nb sample. The deposition experiment results are also analyzed
with Tc and crystal structure.
The outline of this thesis is shown as follow:
10. 2
Chapter 1 An Introduction of superconductor cavity
1.1 The necessary of superconductor RF accelerator
The particle accelerator is a very important instrument. It can be used in the
industry, agriculture, hospital, energy sources, science, and so on. It is first used for
the science and the most advanced accelerator is still used for.
In the industry, the accelerator is used for ion implantation for semiconductor,
surface modification and so on. In the hospital, the accelerator is used for radiation
therapy, radioactive isotope production, and so on. In the energy sources field, the
accelerator is used in the Accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor system (ADS), the
Accelerator Transmutation of Waste (ATW), the Accelerator Production of Tritium
(APT), and so on. The ADS means that a sub-critical reactor driven by the neutron can
produce energy. The neutron is first produced by target injected with the proton beam
accelerated by an accelerator, and can be controlled by the amount of the proton
injected. Because the reactor is sub-critical, it is more safe than the traditional. The
ATW and the APT have some similar with the ADS that they all produce the neutron
by the proton beam of the accelerator first. The ATW use the neutron to transmute the
high radioactive waste produced by the reactor into low radioactive waste. The APT
uses the reaction between the neutron and the Helium-3 to produce the Tritium.
In the science field, the scientist has infinite interest in the mysterious universe.
From 400 years ago, Galileo used the telescope to research the macro-universe. Up to
now, we use the Hubble and the LIGO. In the other side, the scientist has the great
interest in the micro-universe. The scientist used the microscope to research the
micro-universe also from about 400 years ago. Only form about 90 years ago, the
scientist invented the particle accelerator and can deep the research field to the atom.
After that, the particle accelerator was developed very quickly to obtain the higher
and higher energy of the particle. Up to now, the LHC which can accelerate the proton
up to 7 TeV had been built.
At the beginning, the particle was accelerated by the electrostatic field. The
particle energy is from several KeV to several MeV. But there is a limitation of the
energy of the particle accelerated by the electrostatic field. It is impossible to obtain
more than 20 MeV. However, the scientist invented the acceleration method by radio
frequency (RF). After that, the accelerator energy grows rapidly.
11. 3
Fig. 1.1 Disc-loaded traveling-wave accelerator structure
Fig. 1.2 standing-wave elliptic cavity accelerator structure
To accelerate the particle, the RF field should be confined in a cavity. For the
electron beam, there are two kinds of accelerator structure which include standing
wave structure and traveling wave structure. For the heavy ion beam, only the
standing wave structure can be used, but there are many kinds of structure type, such
as radio frequency quadruple (RFQ), drift tube linac (DTL), quarter wave resonators
(QWR), half wave resonators (HWR), spoke resonator, elliptic cavity, and so on.
In the accelerator cavity, the energy of the RF field not only transfers to the
particle, but also consumes on the wall of the cavity. For the high gradient normal
conductor cavity, most of RF energy consumes on the wall. In order to improve the
transfer efficient of the RF energy, the superconductor is taken into account. Almost
all of the RF energy transfer to the particle by the superconductor cavity.
For the heavy ion, we can use a circular accelerator to obtain the high energy. In
the circular accelerator, the particle can be accelerated many times by the same cavity
when it runs along the circle in order to reduce the length of the accelerator and the
number of the accelerator cavity. However, for the electron when its energy is higher
than 200GeV, it can not be accelerated in the circular accelerator, because the electron
will emit synchrotron photon and loss lots of energy when it bends in the circular
accelerator. In consequence, the cost of circular accelerator is higher than that of the
linear accelerator. So, only the linear accelerator is suitable for obtaining the energy of
12. 4
electron higher than 200GeV.
The linear accelerators utilize a linear array of RF cavities and become
increasingly long, with lengths up to the tens of kilometer range, to achieve particle
energies in the GeV to TeV energy range that is of present High Energy Physics (HEP)
interest. Such systems will require on the order of 20,000 RF cavities. Improving the
accelerating voltage per unit length will result in tremendous cost savings, since the
required length to achieve a given beam energy in a linear accelerator is inversely
proportional to the electric field that can be generated per unit length. In addition,
power requirements are significant, ranging from 100 to 250 MW for a 500 GeV
linear accelerator.
The main figures of merit for RF cavities are the quality factor Q0 (defined by the
ratio between the energy stored in the cavity and the energy loss in one RF period)
and its average accelerating field Eacc. Q0 values as high as 1011 have been achieved in
superconducting cavities. Superconducting cavities exhibit approximately a factor 106
higher Q0 than normal conducting cavities due to the reduced microwave surface
resistance. Even when accounting for cooling penalties the required input power is
still about a factor 103 lower when using superconducting cavities instead of normal
conducting cavities, saving drastically in operating costs. The International
Technology Recommendation Panel of the International Committee for Future
Accelerators therefore, amongst other considerations, selected superconducting RF
cavities above normal conducting cavities as the preferred technology for future linear
accelerators [1].
1.2 The performance of the needed superconductor cavity
The efficiency of a RF cavity is usually depicted by plotting Q0 as a function of
Eacc. For an ideal superconducting cavity, Q0 remains constant with increasing Eacc
and collapses when a maximum Eacc is reached. This point is determined by the
magnetic components of the RF standing wave. Once the magnetic component
reaches a certain threshold value, vortices penetrate the superconductor and the
Meissner state is lost. Vortices that move inside the superconductor dissipate energy
and cause the cavity to quench. Even though vortices can be elastically pinned by
material imperfections, their oscillations in an RF field will still cause dissipations [2].
Hence, vortex penetration has to be prevented to retain a high Q0 and a cavity has to
operate in the Meissner state.
13. In Type-II superconductors, vortex penetration becomes energetically favorable
at the bulk lower critical magnetic field Hc1. However, in magnetic fields which are
parallel to the surface, vortices have to overcome the Bean-Livingston positive
surface energy barrier to enter the superconductor [3]. The Meissner state can therefore
persist metastably beyond Hc1, up to the so-called superheating field Hsh, at which the
surface barrier disappears. Note that in practice Hsh is not necessarily reached, due to
earlier vortex penetration at surface irregularities [4] and demagnetization effects of
transverse magnetic field components [5].
So, one of the fundamental limitations of increasing the accelerating gradient of
the superconductor cavity is the critical magnetic field Hc1 of the RF field, which is
also called as Hrf
5
c
[6]. Other limitations include the electron field emission, the thermal
breakdown, the surface resistance and Tc.
The electron field emission means that the electron emits from the peak of the
cavity surface with high electrical field, which can decrease the Q value and induce
local heat. The worst case of the electron field emission is the electrical breakdown.
The electron field emission can be improved by optimizing the cavity shape to reduce
the electrical field on the surface and improving the roughness of the surface.
The thermal breakdown is also a kind of local effect. If some particle without
superconductivity adhere or embed in the surface, the heat will be produced when the
electron pass through them. If the heat is high enough, it will heat the
superconductivity atom near the particle to case the superconductivity, and then
induce more atoms to case the superconductivity, at last, the whole cavity may case
the superconductivity. One method to avoid the thermal breakdown is that the
temperature of the superconductor cavity operating is great lower than Tc. The Tc is
the critical temperature of superconductor. When the temperature of the conductor
decreases lower than the Tc, the conductor changes from the normal state to the
superconductivity state.
The resistance of the superconductor can be neglected at the condition of DC
current. For the RF field, although the resistance of the superconductor is very small,
it can not be neglected.
For the normal conductor, RF currents flow only on the surface of conductors
without passing through the internal conductor bodies. The penetration depth of RF
current in conductor is
= 1 (1.1)
π μσ
δ
f
14. Where, f is the frequency, μ is the permeability and σ is conductivity of the
6
conductor.
In fact, after only a few penetration depths, in conductor internal body the RF
current becomes negligible. The surface resistance of a conductor is
Rn f
S = 1 =
π μ
σ
δσ
(1.2)
It is obvious that the penetration depth will increase and the surface resistance
will decrease when the frequency decreases. At GHz range, only a few microns of the
copper surface gives a contribution to the RF current, while the rest major part served
as substrate.
The RF losses of the accelerator cavity, in the absence of vortices, are mainly
determined by the RF surface resistance (RS), which is usually represented as a
summation of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) surface resistance RBCS and a
residual resistance term (Rres) as shown in Eq.1.3. Rres is usually on the order of a few
nΩ. Provided that the surface is clean and properly manufactured, RS is usually
dominated by RBCS.
R = R + R = R + R S ph res BCS res (1.3)
Where, R
ph is the phonons resistance. The phonons resistance comes from the
crystal lattice and is same with the BCS resistance. Among the factors that define the
Rres, there are extrinsic causes e.g. trapped magnetic flux, can be avoided. Other
causes are intrinsic and due to the structural imperfections of the material. Like
inhomogeneities, impurities, grain boundaries or surface serrations. Materials with a
large coherent length will be insensitive to large defects without an appreciable
increase of the Rres. This is quite desirable for applications of the superconductor
cavity, since the superconducting surfaces are exposed to RF field, and are difficult to
prepare completely 'defect-free'. Therefore it is important to minimize the residual
surface resistance. The RBCS can be defined as:
BTc
R = Aσ ω3λ2 − T
(1.4)
BCS n e
T
Where, A and B are two constants weakly depend on material, ω is the RF
angular frequency, σn is the normal state conductivity of the material,λ is the
effective penetration depth, and Tc is the critical temperature.
Because the surface resistance of superconductor in the RF field is non-zero, a
tiny RF loss can heat the superconductor surface. So the more cryogenic power is
15. needed for preventing the superconductivity ceasing as shown in Table 1.1 [7]. In Table
1.1, Dynamic means to put the RF power into the superconductor cavity. At 2K, the
ratio of the installed power over heat load is about 1000, but at 8K, the ratio is about
250. This means that the cryogenic power per unit of heat load at 2K is about four
times of that at 8K. This conclusion also can be obtained by the Carnot cycle:
7
T T
2 1
T
1
P
source
P
cool −
≥ (1.5)
Where, T2 is the room temperature, T1 is the cryogenic temperature. Because
T2>>T1, the ratio should be inverse proportion to T1.
Table 1.1 RF unit cryogenic heat loads and installed AC cryogenic plant power to remove the heat.
In order to decrease the cryogenic power, two parameters should be taken into
account. The first parameter is the surface resistance, and the second is the cryogenic
operation temperature. According to the Eq.(1.3), we should decrease Rres and RBCS.
To decrease Rres, we should increase the residual resistance radio (RRR).
R K
(300 )
= (300 ) = 1+ (1.6)
res
phonons
RRR R K
R
res R
Where, Rphonons(300K) is a constant.
According to the Eq.(1.4), to decrease RBCS, we should increase the critical
temperature Tc and decrease the cryogenic operation temperature T. However,
according to the Eq.(1.5), to decrease the cryogenic power, we should increase the
cryogenic operation temperature T. So, the best way is to increase Tc.
1.3 The necessary of Nb3Sn superconductor thin film
Among the pure metal, Niobium have the highest Tc, which is about 9.2K.
However, in order to obtain the better performances, such as Q value, accelerating
gradients, thermal stability, and so on, the Nb cavity should only operate at the
temperatures below 2.1 K, which is under the very expensive superfluid He bath
cooling conditions. Fortunately, some of metal compounds have the Tc higher than
16. 10K as shown in Table 1.2 and Table 1.3[8], and there is some possibility of operating
at the temperature of 4.2K.
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Table 1.2 Critical Temperature of compounds with B1 structure
Table 1.3 Critical temperature of binaryA15 compounds
17. The B1 crystal structure has a cubic unit cell with two kinds of atom. It is best
thought of as a face-centered cubic array of anions with an interpenetrating fcc cation
lattice (or vice-versa) so as to form a 3D checkerboard pattern as shown in Fig. 1.3.
The cell looks the same whether you start with anions or cations on the corners. Each
ion is 6-coordinate and has a local octahedral geometry. The most common of the B1
structure is that of NaCl.
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Fig. 1.3 The B1 crystal structure
The A15 crystal structure (also known as β-W or Cr3Si structure types) is series
of intermetallic compounds with the chemical formula A3B (where A is a transition
metal and B can be any element) and a specific structure. Many of these compounds
have superconductivity at around 20 K, which is comparatively high, and remain
superconductive in magnetic fields of tens of teslas. This kind of superconductivity
(Type-II superconductivity) is an important area of study as it has several practical
applications.
The first time of the A15 structure observed was in 1931 when an electrolytically
deposited layer of tungsten was examined.[9] The discussion if the β–tungsten
structure is an allotrope of tungsten or the structure of a tungsten suboxide was
long-standing and in 1998 the articles about the discussion were still published. In the
end it seems most likely that the material is a true allotrope of tungsten.[10]
18. 10
Fig. 1.4 The A15 crystal structure
The first inter-metallic compound with the typical A3B composition was the
chromium silicide Cr3Si was discovered in 1933.[11] Several other compounds of the
A15 structure were found in the following years. No large interest existed in the
research on those compounds, but this changed with the discovery that Vanadium
silicide V3Si showed superconductivity at around 17 K in 1953.[12] In the following
years several other A3B superconductors were found.[13] Niobium-germanium held the
record for the highest temperature of 23.2 K from 1971 till the discovery of the
cuprates in 1986. Although some A15 phase materials can withstand higher magnetic
field intensity and have higher critical temperatures than the NbZr and NbTi alloys
NbTi is still used for most of the applications due to the easier manufacturing.[14]
Nb3Sn is used for some high field applications, for example high end MRI scanners
and NMR spectrometers.
According to the Table 1.2 and Table 1.3, some candidates of high Tc material
used for accelerator are: NbN, V3Ga, V3Al, Nb3 Al, Nb3Ge, V3Si and Nb3Sn. The
compare of these materials [8] is shown as follow:
NbN:
Because of its high critical temperature of 17.2 K, NbN is the only B1 simple
compound that has widely tested for accelerating cavities. Mainly two different
techniques have been investigated: Thermal diffusion of N into Nb followed by
rapid quench cooling and Reactive Sputtering onto Nb cavities. Rather seldom
NbN applied to superconducting cavities gives better results than those obtainable
by bulk Nb or Nb sputtered Cu. The main reason for this is the anomalously high
resistivity of NbN in the normal state, which, even if not always reported in the
19. NbN cavities literature, is often higher than 100 μΩcm resulting into RBCS and
RRES values larger than the expectancy.
NbN grains grow as columns perpendicular to the film plane, weakly
bounded among each others, and separated by strong boundaries consisting of
voids, normal conducting areas of Niobium and Niobium-dissolved gas composite
phases like Niobium sub-Oxy-Carbo-Nitrides lumps. The denser is the grain
boundary matrix, the higher is generally the normal state resistivity of NbN films.
Resistivity values of the order of 1000 μΩcm are indeed encountered by sputtered
films, with small average grain size, around 100 Å wide. Such films even show a
strongly negative slope of resistivity against temperature that means RRR < 1 just
as for semiconductors.
On the other hand TC 's close to the maximum 17.3 K are monitored almost in
correspondence of low resistivity values (100 μΩcm and RRR≥1). The right
B1-NbN superconducting phase is the so-called δ-phase corresponding to a lattice
parameter of 4.388 Å and having a TC very sensitive to Nitrogen stoichiometry. In
sputtered films the δ-phase can be found mixed to some other low TC phases like
the α-Nb phase constituted by interstitial Nitrogen in bcc Nb lattice, the hexagonal
(W2C type) β-Nb2N, the face centered tetragonal (distorted NaCl type) γ-Nb4N3
and the hexagonal (TiP type) ε-NbN phase.
Fig.1.5 A15 phase fields and superconductivity in a) V-Si, b) V-Ga, c) V-Ge and d) V-Al Systems
11
20. Unfortunately even if no grain boundaries are present and a δ-phase single
crystal is considered the single grain resistivity is not so low: A minimum value of
ρn = 30μΩcm is expected, due to both metallic and gaseous vacancies in the
lattice. This problem that is common to all the other B1 compounds consists in the
fact that what corresponds to the equiatomic composition is not the formula
Nb1.0N1.0, but Nb0.987N0.987: vacancies randomly distributed in both sublattices
amounts to 1.3% respectively.
In order to improve the performance of NbN, the Titanium is added into. It
presents all the advantages of the NbN, in the meanwhile it shows electrical
conduction properties as more metallic as higher the titanium percentages is.
Titanium is a good Nitrogen getter and the more Titanium we have the lower
lattice vacancies will be. The Nitrogen stoichiometry hence is closer to 1 than for
NbN. Moreover the critical temperature is even higher than that of NbN for
Titanium content up to 40%. The resistivity instead decreases steeply versus the
Titanium content [15-17]. This last phenomenon is the main reason under NbTiN
choice. NbTiN cavities have been sputtered at CERN and at Saclay. The Q0, at
zero field, is higher than the Q-value of Niobium cavities, but the accelerating
field achieved does not overcome the 10 Mv/m limit [18].
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V3Ga
The A15 phase forms by a congruent reaction from the bcc solid solution at
1295°C and is stable from 20 at. % to 32 at. % gallium. The TC shows a marked
maximum of 15.9K at stoichiometry and decreases almost linearly on both sizes.
V3Ga has the highest electronic density of states of all known A15 compounds. In
contrast to the latter, however, it does not exhibit a low temperature phase
transformation, which is explained by the fact that perfect ordering in this
compound cannot be reached.
V3Al
It shows a TC up to 14K, but it is a metastable compound, superconducting
only under thin film form. In principle metastability would be not a problem for
RF applications construction, if V-Al is sputtered into a resonator, and moreover it
has the advantage of a relatively low temperature of deposition. It should deserve
further investigation, being a relatively little studied compound. The real problem
indeed is that, because of metastability, this compound is not applicable to
21. superconducting magnet construction, and then it has been generally neglected in
A15 treatises.
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V3Si
This material is one of the few examples of an A15 compound that form
congruently from the melt. The A15 phase in the Vanadium-Silicon system is
stable between 19 and 25 at. % Silicon. Large single crystals can be grown in the
whole range either by zone melting or by recrystallization at 1870°C. There is a
linear increase in TC from 19 at. % to 25 at. % silicon, where a maximum TC of
17.1K is achieved. For this compound, the RRR value of 80 can be obtained.
One problem must be solved before to apply this material to cavities: a
proper substrate should be chosen. Niobium is not the right choice, because of the
large diffusion coefficient of Vanadium into Niobium at high temperatures. The
choice of Vanadium itself, as a substrate, should be more deeply considered, due
to the drawback of lower thermal conductivity than Niobium, and this is a
problem for the achievement of high gradients.
Fig.1.6 A15 phase fields and superconductivity in a) Nb-Ga, b) Nb-Ge, and c) Nb-Al Systems
Nb3Al
This compound is formed by a peritectoid reaction from the bcc solid
solution and sigma (Nb2Al) phase at 1730°C, and contains 26 at. % Al. The
22. stoichiometric composition is metastable at room temperature and is only stable at
1940°C. The aluminium content of the A15 phase decreases with decreasing
temperature; the homogeneity range at 1000°C is 19~22 at.% Al.
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Nb3Ge
The most striking feature of Nb3Ge phase field is that the stoichiometric
composition is not included at equilibrium, the highest solubility of Germanium
being 23 at.%. At 1000°C, the homogeneity range of the A15 phase is very narrow
and is centered at 18 at.% with total width of 1 at.%. It has not been possible to
rise TC above 17~18 K in bulk sample either by quenching or other means.
Metastable stoichiometric, or near stoichiometric, Nb3Ge can be prepared as thin
films with critical temperature of 23 K. But the big problem is that the material is
very brittle, which meaning is that a strike or vibration can change the A15
structure and cease the superconductor.
Nb3Sn
Nb3Sn is the only A15 material that has given promising results when applied
to the construction of a real cavity [19]: Tin was reactively diffused into an Nb bulk
cavity and the Q-factor was in the order of 1011, the accelerating field being
limited to about 12 MV/m.
Fig.1.7 The Niobium-Tin phase diagram
According the phase diagram of Fig. 1.7, the A15 phase is unstable below
23. 775°C. From the same diagram, it is seen that several spurious phases are also
possible, and this can represent a limitation for the fabrication of superconducting
cavities. Besides TC, however for Nb-Sn system there is another quantity
undergoing a much stronger variation in the narrow composition range between
24.5 at. % and 25 at.% Sn: the resistivity in normal state just before transition.
Resistivity indeed changes from 20 μΩ cm at 24.4 at. % tin to less than 4 μΩcm at
25 at.% tin; this sharp change being a direct consequence of the perfectly ordered
state of Nb3Sn. This consideration is absolutely critical: for everybody wishing to
carry on further investigation on Nb3Sn, it is mandatory to look for low resistivity.
The parameters comparison between Nb and Nb3Sn are shown in Table 1.4[1].
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Table 1.4 the parameters of Nb3Sn and Nb
Fig 1.8 the crystal structure of MgB2
Another important new superconductivity material is the magnesium diboride
24. (MgB2), which is a simple ionic binary compound that has proven to be an
inexpensive and useful superconducting material. Its crystal structure is shown in Fig.
1.8.
The superconductivity of MgB2 was announced in the journal Nature in March
2001 by Nagamatzu and Akimitsu [20]. Its Tc of 39 K for a sp-bonded is the highest
amongst conventional superconductors. This material was first synthesized and its
structure confirmed in 1953,[21] but its superconducting properties were not discovered
until 2001. The discovery caused great excitement and led to the general interest in
this material, since it opens the way to a new class of simple and low-cost binary
intermetallic superconductors with a record HTCs for non-oxide and non C-60 based
compounds.
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Fig. 1.9 Temperature dependence of the upper critical field, the region near Tc is
enlarged in the inset.
Though generally believed to be a conventional superconductor and most
experimental works, as Raman Spectroscopy, Boron-isotope effect, Spin lattice
relaxation time, tunneling measurements and optical conductivity data, are all
consistent with the existence of phonon mediated superconductivity, it is a rather
unusual one. But an unusual superconducting gap behavior has been observed
indicating the existence of a double gap [22] and the presence of a smaller gap is a
serious drawback for RF applications. Its electronic structure is such that there exist
25. two types of electrons at the Fermi level with widely differing behaviours, one of
them (σ-bonding) being much more strongly superconducting than the other
(π-bonding). This is at odds with usual theories of phonon-mediated
superconductivity which assume that all electrons behave in the same manner.
Theoretical understanding of the properties of MgB2 has almost been achieved with
two energy gaps. It was regarded as behaving more like a metallic than a cuprate
superconductor.
On the other side the material appears promising for RF, since it is rather
insensitive to impurity content; it is highly metallic and has strong linked grain
boundaries. Its properties depend greatly on composition and fabrication process.
Many properties are anisotropic due to the layered structure. 'Dirty' samples, e.g., with
oxides at the crystal boundaries, are different from 'clean' samples.[23]
The maximum critical current (Jc) is: 105 A/m² at 20 T, 106 A/m² at 18 T, 107
17
A/m² at 15 T, 108 A/m² at 10 T, 109 A/m² at 5 T[23].
Up to 2008, the parallel upper critical field (Hc2) obtained is about 14.8 T, and
the perpendicular upper critical field is about 3.3 T as shown in Fig. 1.10[23]. In thin
films the field is up to 74 T, and in fibres up to 55 T[23].
MgB2 thin film produced by the hybrid physical chemical vapour deposition
(HPCVD) has the good performance, which characterized by Tc0 = 41.8 K, ρ0 = 0.26
μΩ cm, RRR > 30 [24,25], and self-field Jc = 3.4×107 A cm−2 [26].As far as
superconducting cavities are concerned, still many problems must be solved: the
degradation of superconducting properties of MgB2 after the immersion in water.
Fig.1.10 RBCS of different material
26. In order to compare the RBCS of different material, the nomogram [8,27] of Fig.
1.10 can be constructed for materials at 4.2 K, 500 MHz and a strong coupling factor
of 4. Chosen a certain value of RBCS, on the corresponding curve there are all the
materials with different TC and ρn having the same RBCS. Among the material
described in Fig. 1.10, the ρ0 of V3Si and Nb3Sn is the most small. Although the Tc of
MgB2 is higher than that of V3Si and Nb3Sn, its RBCS is the same order of that of V3Si
and Nb3Sn because of the 2.3 meV energy gap of π bonding at 4.2K [28]. So, among
these three kinds of material, Nb3Sn is the most stable and easy to obtain.
The last problem is that why we used the thin film for the superconductor cavity.
The first reason is that it is possible to use different substrates, which can improve the
thermal stability and the mechanical stability. For example, the thermal conductivity
and mechanical performance can be improved by the Cu substrate. The second reason
is to reduce the manufacture cost and the consuming of the superconductivity material.
The third reason is to improve the performance of the superconductor, such as the Tc,
RRR, Q value, Hc and so on. For example, the performance of the MgB2 thin film is
better than that of the bulk of Nb most. But this is not always effective. For example,
the Q value of the thin film Nb cavity is higher than that of bulk Nb cavity at low
accelerator field, but it is always reversed at high field [29].
In other words, the thin film cavity always has a higher Q-slope, especially for
innovative superconductors. However, some kinds of superconductivity material can
not be used to shape the cavity by the bulk material because the material is brittle and
the distortion can change the crystal lattice to change the superconductivity
performance, such as Nb3Sn, MgB2, and so on.
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Fig.1.11 the Q0 of Nb
27. Of course, there are some other kinds of superconductor, such as organic
superconductor, molecular superconductor and high temperature superconductor. The
RRR of organic superconductor is lower, so it is not proper to be used for the
accelerator cavity because of higher RBCS. The thin film of the molecular
superconductor is some difficult to be obtained. The critical H and the critical current
of the high temperature superconductor are somewhat lower than that of accelerator
cavity needed.
In the conclusion, the Nb3Sn thin film is very important for the superconductor
cavity. There are two methods to manufacture the Nb3Sn thin film: the diffusion
method and multilayer deposition method. In this thesis, we focus on the multilayer
deposition method.
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Fig.1.12 the different kinds of supercondoctor
28. 20
Chapter 2 Introduction: How to sputter Nb thin film
2.1 Technique of the vacuum
From the Eq.(1.6), the RRR of the same material is determined by the residual
surface resistance, which is fundamentally determined by the purity of the thin film.
The method to improve the purity is to improve the base pressure of the sputtering
chamber. So the ultra high vacuum (UHV) system is needed for obtaining the vacuum
pressure higher than 10-7 mbar. The vacuum system is shown as Fig. 2.1 and Fig. 2.2.
Fig. 2.1 the front view of the system
Fig. 2.2 the top view of the system
The UHV system is composed of four operation chamber and one main chamber
29. as shown in Fig.2.3. The four operation chamber is linked with the main chamber by
all metal valves. The main chamber is pumped by the turbomolecular pump and rotary
pump. The gate valve is used for separating the main chamber and the pump. The
nitrogen linked by the venting valve is used for venting the vacuum. The argon linked
by the leak valve is the sputtering proceeding gas. A vacuum gauge is used for
measurement the pressure of the main chamber. The chamber 1 is used for the sample
deposition by magnetron. The chamber 2 is used for 6 GHz cavity deposition. The
chamber 3 is used for annealing by an inductor. The chamber 4 is used for annealing
by a lamp. The 3 dimensional design of the system by the Inventor is shown as
Fig.2.4.
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Fig. 2.3 the scheme of the UHV system
Fig. 2.4 3-Ddesign of the UHV system
30. The UHV system is controlled by the control panel, which include the controller
of the pump, the switch of the gate valve, the controller of the baking system, the
controller of the inductor annealing system and the vacuum display.
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Fig. 2.5 Control panel Fig.2.6 Vacuum gauge
Fig.2.7 Gate valve
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Fig.2.8 turbomolecular pump
Fig. 2.9 Rotary Pump
Fig.2.10 Heating Element
Before pumping the system, we first open the all metal valve of the used
chamber, and close that of other chamber. We also need to close the all metal leak
valve of Ar and N2. And then, we open the gate valve, press starting pump button, and
switch on the gauge.
32. 24
Fig.2.11 Argon leak valve and all metal valve Fig.2.12 Nitrogen Vent Valve
Fig. 2.13 Argon Bottle
33. 25
Fig. 2.14 The chamber covered with aluminum foils.
Fig. 2.15 The cooling curve after baking.
In order to reduce the pumping time, the system baking is needed for obtaining
the UHV higher than 10-7 mbar. We must wait the pressure up to 10-6 mbar before start
baking in order to be sure that the system don’t have big leak. In order to obtain the
34. uniform baking temperature and better baking, we cover the main chamber and the
chamber that you want to use with aluminum foils. The vacuum gauge can not be
covered. And then, we set the temperature of baking and the time of baking.
It should be sure that thermocouples are connected to their own zones and heat
only the chambers that you are pumping, and we should not set T>120℃ if you have
mounted windows, magnetrons and viton o-rings. The cooling water should be given
before the baking start for the protection of the permanent magnet. When the baking is
finished, we wait for the natural cooling of the system till it near the room temperature.
From the cooling curve of Fig.2.15, the pressure decrease with the temperature
decreasing.
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2.2 Nb thin film on sapphire
In order to research the performance of the thin film and the parameters of
sputtering, the Nb thin film on sapphire should be first researched.
2.2.1 Sputtering configuration
Fig.2.16 The assembly of the Nb magnetron
The sputtering is proceeded by a 2 inch of magnetron, which of component is
shown as Fig.2.16. The magnetron is mounted with a new copper gasket from the
bottom of the sputtering chamber after cleaning with acetone and alcohol. A flange
with glass window is mounted from the top of the chamber.
35. 27
Fig. 2.17 the gasket and the magnetron
Fig. 2.18 mounting the magnetron from the bottom of the chamber
Fig. 2.19 the flange with glass window
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Fig. 2.20 the ultrasonic cleaning machine
Fig. 2.21 preparation of the sapphire fixing on the holder
Fig. 2.22 the sample and its holder
The sapphire sample is needed to clean with ultrasonic for better adhering with
the thin film. The sample is fixed on the aluminum sample holder with silver paint as
37. shown in Fig. 2.21 and Fig. 2.22. The distance between the sample and the magnetron
is about 7 cm.
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2.2.2 Deposition parameter
Fig. 2.23 The plasma during the sputtering
We should use the different sputtering parameter to research the performance of
the thin film. The main sputtering parameters include the sputtering current, the
deposition time and the proceeding pressure. In our experiment, the three parameters
are all changed as shown in table 2.1.
Table 2.1 The sputtering parameters
run Time(min) Current(A) Gas pressure (mbar)
1 25 0.8 5*10-3
2 20 1.0 5*10-3
3 15 1.2 5*10-3
4 15 1.4 5*10-3
5 20 1.0 3*10-3
6 20 1.2 3*10-3
7 20 1.4 3*10-3
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2.2.3 Analysis and results
2.2.3.1 Thickness measurement
We use the sample 4 of each run to measurement the thickness of thin film. Each
of the sample is deposited the thin film on about half of the surface area. We
measurement the thickness of each sample five times and average the result.
Fig. 2.24 the profile measurement machine
Fig. 2.25 The measurement trace
Table 2.2 The thickness measurement results
run Time(min) Current(A) Gas pressure (mbar) Thickness(nm) Deposition rate (nm/s)
1 25 0.8 5*10-3 1660 1.4
2 20 1.0 5*10-3 2100 1.7
3 15 1.2 5*10-3 1750 1.9
4 15 1.4 5*10-3 2080 2.3
5 20 1.0 3*10-3 1920 1.6
6 20 1.2 3*10-3 2480 2.1
7 20 1.4 3*10-3 2610 2.2
39. [30]. The
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Fig. 2.26 The interface of the surface profile measurement
According to the results, the deposition rate is proportion to the sputtering
current and the proceeding gas pressure, which means that the deposition time
determines the thickness of the thin film and the sputtering current determines the
deposition rate,
2.2.3.2 Tc measurement
In order to measurement the critical temperature (Tc), we should use the liquid
Helium, because only the liquation point of He (4.2K) is lower than the Tc of Nb.
We use the four point resistance measurement method to measure the Tc
four contacting point are arranged as the last one in Fig. 2.29 by a spring as shown in
Fig.2.30. The input current is fixed at 10 uA and changed its direction in period of 1
second. In the Tc measurement instrument, the sample is place on a piece of paper
painted with grease for the good thermal conductor, and the sample should be
prevented to contact with copper directly.
Because the measurement error and the phase change process, the temperature of
changing from the normal conductor to superconductor is not a point value. In order
to minimizing the error, we calculate the Tc and dTc as follow:
T T T +
C90% C10%
2
C
= (2.1)
dT T T −
C90% C10%
2
C
= (2.2)
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Fig. 2.27 450l liquid He Dewar
Fig. 2.28 the current source and voltage meter for Tc measurement
Fig. 2.29 the different arrangement of four point resistance measurement
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Fig. 2.30 put the sample into the Tc measurement set up
Fig. 2.31 the interface of Tc measurement high than 10K
Fig. 2.32 the interface of Tc measurement less than 10K
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Fig. 2.33 the fitting of the Tc curve
Table 2.3 the results of Tc measurement
Where, Tc90% is the temperature of 90% of the residual resistance, Tc10% is the
temperature of 10% of the residual resistance, and dTc is the range of Tc. The
measurements of the Tc are shown as in Table 2.3. Where, r1s2 means the second
sample of the first run. According to the results, the proceeding gas pressure affects
the performance of the thin film, RRR.
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Fig. 2.34 the performance of the thin film
In the Fig. 2.34, the Tc of the sample deposited at the pressure of 5*10-3 mbar are
higher that at the pressure of 3*10-3 mbar, but the RRR of the sample deposited at the
pressure of 5*10-3 mbar are lower than that at the pressure of 3*10-3 mbar. This means
that the lower pressure can improve the purity of the thin film and decrease the Tc.
However, the reason is needed to research.
2.2.3.3 XRD analysis
In order to research the crystal structure of the thin film, we should do the X ray
diffraction (XRD). From the result of the XRD, we can obtain the crystal plane, and
then we can get the information of the thin film.
Fig. 2.35 The XRD machine
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40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140
100
80
60
40
20
0
121.7°
{321}
9 5 .1°
8 2 .5 ° {3 1 0 }
{220}
69.6°
{211}
55.5°
{200}
elative intensity
An g le [degre e ]
sample1
sample2
sample3
3 8 .5°
{110}
Fig. 2.39 the XRD result of Run 4
4 0 50 60 70 80 90 100 11 0 120 130 1 40
10 0
8 0
6 0
4 0
2 0
0
1 21 .7 °
{3 2 1 }
9 5 .1 °
{3 1 0 }
8 2 .5 °
{22 0 }
6 9 .6 °
{2 1 1 }
5 5 .5 °
{2 0 0 }
elative intensity
A ng le [d e g re e ]
s am p le 2
s am p le 3
3 8 .5 °
{1 1 0 }
Fig. 2.40 the XRD result of Run 5
40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140
100
80
60
40
20
0
121.7°
{321}
95.1°
{310}
82.5°
{220}
69.6°
{211}
55.5°
{200}
elative intensity
Angle[degree]
sample1
sample2
sample3
38.5°
{110}
Fig. 2.41 the XRD result of Run 6
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40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140
100
80
60
40
20
0
121.7°
{321}
95.1°
82.5° {310}
{220}
69.6°
{211}
55.5°
{200}
elative intensity
Angle[degree]
sample1
sample2
sample3
38.5°
{110}
Fig. 2.42 the XRD result of Run 7
According to the result of the XRD experiment from Fig. 2.36 to Fig. 2.42, there
are some abnormal peaks, such as {211} of sample2 of run3, {211} of sample3 of
run2. All of the marked peaks are the crystal plane of the Nb. The unmarked peaks of
Run 3 sample 1 may be that of Oxygen element, the unmarked peaks of Run 7 sample
1 may be that of NbO, and the unmarked peaks of Run 5 sample 2 may be that of
NbO and Oxygen, which should be investigated in the next step.
Fig.2.43 The mirror reflection of the photon
The peaks of the figures of the XRD results are formed by the crystal, which can
be explained by W. H. Bragg as shown in the Fig.2.43. If we regard the crystal planes
as mirrors, constructive interference is observed when the path difference between the
two reflected beams is nλ. The path difference of the photon action on the adjacent
crystal plane is:
47. 39
2dsinθ= nλ (2.3)
Fig.2.44 the different distance of the different crystal plane
Where d is the interplanar spacing. However, the distance is different with the
different crystal plane as shown in Fig.2.44. For the cubic crystal, there is a
relationship:
2 2 2
h k l
1 ( )
2
2
( , , )
a
d h k l
+ +
= (2.4)
Where, h,k,l stand for the direction of the crystal plane, a is the cubic edge length.
And then we have:
4sin2 ( ) ( h 2 k 2 l
2
)
2
θ
2 2
a
n
+ +
=
λ
(2.5)
According to the Eq.(2.4), Eq.(2.5) and the XRD results from Fig.2.35 to
Fig.2.42, we can obtain the d-space of {110} crystal plane, and then the cubic edge
length can be obtained of each sample as shown in Table2.3.
Table2.3 the cubic edge length of each sample
The relationship between the cubic edge length and sputtering current is shown
in Fig.2.45, where the black point means that the pressure of proceeding gas is
48. 5*10-3mbar and the red point means 3*10-3mbar. From the picture, we can see that the
highest cubic edge length is that of 1.2 A sputtering current.
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0.8 0.9 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
0.3320
0.3315
0.3310
0.3305
0.3300
0.3295
0.3290
0.3285
0.3280
5E-3mbar
3E-3mbar
theory
cubic edge length (nm)
current (A)
Fig. 2.45 the cubic edge length versus sputtering current
2.3 Discussion
Sample analysis of sputtered niobium films is the primary step for the Nb3Sn
multilayer thin film deposition. Film crystalline structure, thickness, Tc and RRR are
important diagnosis of the sputter deposition. The further investigation is needed.
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Chapter 3 Multilayer deposition of Nb3Sn
3.1 Technique of deposition
Fig. 3.1 the structure of multilayer
Multilayer deposition can improve the Hc of superconductor. However, we use
the multilayer to produce the A15 crystal structure of Nb3Sn. If the thin film is made
of multilayer as shown in Fig. 3.1, when we heat the thin film, the Sn atom and the Nb
atom move little distance and the A15 Nb3Sn crystal is easy to be obtained. In order to
improve the adherence of the thin film, the Nb buffer layer is first deposited. Because
the vapour pressure of Sn is very low, the Nb over layer is needed to prevent the Sn
vaporizing.
Fig. 3.2 Sketch of the UHV multilayer deposition system
For the deposition of the multilayer in the cylindrical stainless steel vacuum
50. chamber which is 280 mm high and 100 mm of the diameter, we use two planar
balanced magnetrons. The Sn magnetron should be mounted at the bottom of the
chamber because of the lower melting point, and the Nb magnetron is mounted at the
top of the chamber as shown in Fig. 3.2.
The sample holder is in the centre of the chamber and it is an aluminium disk
connected to a rotary feed through. In this way we can rotate the samples, and every
180° rotation we expose the sample to Nb plasma before, and Sn plasma after. The
distance between targets and samples is 70 mm and during the sputtering we use
Argon as process gas whose pressure is about 10-3 mbar. No substrate heating systems
were employed.
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Fig. 3.3 the UHV multilayer deposition chamber
3.2 Deposition on sapphire
The multilayer can be deposited on the sapphire and the Nb sample. Because of
the perfect flat of the sapphire surface, all the parameters of the thin film on the
sapphire can be measured, such as Tc, RRR, thickness and XRD. On the other side,
only Tc and RRR of the thin film on the Nb sample can be measured. So, we first
investigate the multilayer deposited on the sapphire.
3.2.1 Deposition parameter
Same with the deposition of Nb thin film on the sapphire, the main parameters of
the deposition multilayer are including the sputtering current, the deposition time and
the proceeding pressure. In our experiment, we fix the proceeding pressure of 5*10-3
mbar and the Sn sputtering current of 0.15mA. The deposition time is also fixed. To
deposit the buffer layer and over layer, we use the Nb sputtering current of 0.8mA for
51. 1 minute. The time of depositing multilayer is 10 minute. The rotation speed of the
sample holder is about 13 second per circle. We only change the Nb sputtering current
form 1A to 1.8A. The parameters of each deposition are shown in Table 3.1. Where,
ML means multilayer.
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Table 3.1 The parameters of multilayer deposition on sapphire
Run s1 s2 s3 s4 s5
Total Time(min) 12 12 12 12 12
Nb
buffer
layer time(min) 1 1 1 1 1
voltage(V) 374 435 408 384 365
current(A) 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8
Nb voltage(V) 376 436 416 400 404
current(A) 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8
Sn Voltage(V) 520 400 480 540 512
Current(A) 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15
Multilayer
time (min) 10 10 10 10 10
voltage(V) 367 400 380 369 355
current(A) 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8
Nb
over
layer time(min) 1 1 1 1 1
Base pressure(mbar) 1.2*10-8 1.5*10-8 4.7*10-8 2.3*10-8 4.9*10-8
Ar Gas pressure(mbar) 5*10-3 5*10-3 5*10-3 5*10-3 5*10-3
3.2.2 Vacuum annealing
The sample annealing is performed after the deposition for obtaining the A15 of
Nb3Sn. The annealing should first heat the sample and thin film to about 1000°C.
During that temperature, the Nb atom and Sn atom diffusion into each other, and then
the A15 crystal structure is formed. According to the Fig.3.4, the heating temperature
should be higher than 775°C, and the best is from 930°C to 950°C. The heating time
should be longer than three hours, and then quench as quickly as possible. If the
quenching time is shorter enough, the A15 crystal structure formed during the high
temperature is frozen. Otherwise, the A15 crystal structure will be broken at the low
temperature.
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Fig. 3.4 The Niobium-Tin phase diagram
The annealing should be performed in vacuum for good purity and performance.
If without vacuum, the gas atom of environment can enter into the thin film or react
with the atom of the thin film. So, the base pressure should be also ultra high vacuum,
and the baking is also needed. There are two methods of annealing which including
the lamp annealing and the inductor annealing.
3.2.2.1 The technique description of lamp annealing
Fig. 3.5 the UHV lamp annealing chamber
The lamp annealing is proceeded in the chamber 4 which is similar with the
53. chamber 1 and is connected to the same pumping system as shown in Fig. 3.5. A
heater, which is composed of an Inconel cup and an infrared lamp in the cup, permits
to heat the sample up to 1000°C.
In order to detect the temperature during the annealing, a thermal sensor should
be made and mounted in the chamber. The thermal sensor is welded with alumel and
chromel on the graphite, and it need to be isolated by a ceramic.
The feed through is needed to isolate the heater and thermal sensor by ceramic.
The power is provide by a variac and isolation transformer. The different annealing
temperature can be obtained by changing the input voltage of the heater.
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Fig. 3.6 Mounting the lamp for annealing heater
Fig. 3.7 welding the thermal sensor Fig. 3.8 the thermal sensor after welding
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Fig. 3.9 thermal sensor with ceramic isolator
Fig. 3.10 mounting the feed through of heater and thermal sensor
Fig. 3.11 the heater system
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3.2.2.2 Analysis result
Ⅰ The thickness measurement
After three hours annealing, we have measured the superconductor parameters of
the sapphire sample. The measurement method of thickness is same with that in the
Chapter 2. According to the result of measurement, the thickness of each thin film is
about 1 um as shown in Table 3.2.
Table 3.2 the thickness of each deposition
Ⅱ Tc measurement
The measurement method of Tc and RRR is same with that in the Chapter 2.
Fig. 3.12 the superconductor parameters of different sample
According to the result of measurement, the Tc is about 17K, and the RRR is
about 5. According to the Fig. 3.12, the Tc and RRR decrease at the same time when
the ratio of the sputtering current between Nb and Sn is higher or lower than the
proper value. This can be explained in the Fig. 3.4 that when the stoichiometric
56. composition is not proper, other kinds of crystal structure can appear after the
annealing, and then the superconductor parameters become worse.
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Fig. 3.13 the principle of the inductor Tc measurement
Fig. 3.14 inductor set up for Tc measurement
Fig. 3.15 the waveform of the measurement signal
Primary coil
Tested sample
Secondary coil
57. In order to detect the component of the thin film, another method of the inductor
Tc measurement should be used as shown in Fig.3.13 [31]. We give a sine signal to the
primary coil, and measure the output signal of the secondary coil. In Fig. 3.15,
channel 1 is the input signal, channel 2 is the output signal and the channel 3 is the
reference signal.
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Fig. 3.16 the measurement interface before 20K
Fig. 3.17 the measurement interface after 20K
Because the thin film is conductor, there is a phase different between the
secondary coil and the primary coil. If the thin film is normal conductor, the phase
58. difference is changed slightly with the temperature as shown in Fig. 3.16. If the thin
film transform to superconductor, the phase difference is changed rapidly, as shown in
Fig. 3.17. According to the changing of the phase difference, we can measure the Tc
as shown in Fig. 3.18, which is similar with that of the resistance measurement
method.
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Fig. 3.18 the calculation of the Tc
Fig. 3.19 the comparison result of resistive and inductor
The advantage of the inductor method is that it can measure the different Tc of
the same thin film. For example, in our experiment, we deposit the Nb and Sn at the
same time. If there is some zone of the film composed of pure Nb after the annealing,
there will be two step of phase difference changing, where the high temperature of Tc
is Nb3Sn and the lower temperature of Tc is Nb. The disadvantage is that it can not
59. measure the RRR. So the resistance method can not be replaced by the inductor
method completely.
We fix the frequency of the input signal as 20kHz, and the measurement result is
shown in Fig. 3.19. Comparing with the result of resistance, the Tc of the
measurement by inductor is higher, but the curve shape is similar.
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Ⅲ XRD analysis
The crystal structure measured by XRD is shown from Fig. 3.21 to Fig. 3.25. All
the marked peaks with black number are the crystal plane of Nb3Sn. Comparing with
the Nb sputtering current from 1.2A to 1.6A, there are several high peak marked with
red number as shown in Fig. 3.20 and Fig. 3.24. For the Nb sputtering current of 1.0A,
because the abundant of Sn in the thin film, the peak of the Sn crystal plane of 731
appears. The peak of 1’ and 2’ also exit in the figure from Fig. 3.21 to Fig. 3.23, but
its value is small. However, the peak of 1’ and 2’ is not the crystal plane of Nb, Sn or
Nb3Sn, its meaning need the further investigation.
1A Nb current, lamp annealing for 3 hours
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relative intensity
Angle[degree]
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4
5
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6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 151617 3'
2'
Fig. 3.20 the XRD result of Run s1
Table 3.3 the description of the peaks of Run s1
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relative Intensity
Angle[degree]
relative Intensity
1
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4
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Fig. 3.21 the XRD result of Run s2
Table 3.4 the description of the peaks of Run s2
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Fig. 3.22 the XRD result of Run s3
Table 3.5 the description of the peaks of Run s3
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relative Intensity
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Fig. 3.23 the XRD result of Run s4
Table 3.6 the description of the peaks of Run s4
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Angle[degree]
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5
1'
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Fig. 3.24 the XRD result of Run s5
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Table 3.7 the description of the peaks of Run s5
1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8
0.5294
0.5292
0.5290
0.5288
0.5286
0.5284
Nb3Sn
thoery
cubic edge length (nm)
current (A)
Fig.3.25 the cubic edge length versus Nb sputtering current
Using the same method of 2.3.3.3 section, we can obtain the cubic edge length of
each sample. According to Fig.3.25, the cubic edge length increases with the Nb
sputtering current increasing, except the point of 1.4A.
3.3 Deposition on Nb sample
If we fabricate the accelerator cavity with thin film, the thin film should be
deposited on substrate, which including the Nb and copper. The advantage of the Nb
substrate is that Nb is superconductor, which means that when the part zone of the
thin film is not the superconductor, the Nb is still the superconductor which make sure
of that the whole accelerator cavity is superconductor. But the disadvantage is that the
thermal conductor of the Nb is poor. The advantage of the copper substrate is that the
thermal conductor and the mechanical property are very good. The good thermal
conductor can quickly transfer the heat produced by the microwave in the thin film,
which can reduce the thermal unstable of the superconductor because that if the heat
can not transfer in time, the temperature of some zone of the thin film will increase
and higher than Tc. The good mechanical property can reduce the detuning of the
63. frequency of the cavity which is induced by the Lorentz force acting on the
superconductor by the microwave. But the copper is not superconductor.
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Fig. 3.26 the Nb sample and its holder
The Nb sample and its holder before and after mounting are shown in Fig3.26
and Fig.3.27. The Nb sample is 2cm length, 1cm width and 3mm thickness with two
grooves of 2mm width. Before the deposition, the Nb sample is preceded with the
buffer chemical polish (BCP) for 5 minute. The sputtering and the depositing system
are same with that of sapphire sample.
Fig. 3.27 fixing the sample on its holder
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3.3.1 Deposition parameter
The deposition parameters of the multilayer of thin film on the Nb sample are the
same with that on the sapphire sample, which is shown in Table 3.8.
Table 3.8 The parameters of multilayer deposition on Nb
Run N1 N2 N3 N4 N5
Total Time(min) 12 12 12 12 12
Nb
buffer
layer time(min) 1 1 1 1 1
voltage(V) 343 338 341 356 330
current(A) 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8
Nb voltage(V) 344 358 360 375 372
current(A) 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8
Sn Voltage(V) 493 497 521 506 489
Current(A) 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15
multilayer
time (min) 10 10 10 10 10
voltage(V) 121* 334 331 332 323
current(A) 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8
Nb
over
layer time(min) 1 1 1 1 1
Ar Gas pressure(mbar) 5*10-3 5*10-3 5*10-3 5*10-3 5*10-3
Base pressure(mbar) 4.3*10-8 4.8*10-8 1.8*10-8 3.0*10-8 1.5*10-8
* The leakage water induce the short circuit and low output voltage
3.3.2 Annealing with inductor
Annealing with lamp needs long time to increase the temperature. The ramp of
the temperature is very steep when the inductor is used. The inductor annealing needs
to input the AC current into the coil. As shown in Fig. 3.28. The coil will induce the
electromagnetic field in the vacuum chamber space. When we put the sample or the
cavity, the eddy current will be induced in the metal and the eddy current will heat the
metal quickly.
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Fig. 3.28 the inductor coil
During the annealing, the temperature is measured by the pyrometer. The
pyrometer measures the temperature of the annealing sample through the glass
window as shown in Fig. 3.30. Because the spectrum of the photon emitted form the
sample at the different temperature is different, we can measure the temperature by
the spectrum.
The maximum of the input power of the inductor is about 10KW, and we fix the
frequency of the input AC current at 80KHz.
Fig.3.29 the inductor annealing chamber
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Fig. 3.30 Pyrometer
Fig. 3.31 measuring the temperature of the sample during annealing
Only the inductor annealing is used for obtaining the Nb3Sn thin film on Nb
sample. The sample is fixed by Nb wire as shown in Fig.3.32. The temperature of the
sample is about 1000℃ during the annealing.
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Fig. 3.32 fixing the sample with Nb wire
Fig. 3.33 heating the sample by the inductor
3.3.3 Analysis result
3.3.3.1 Tc measurement
Because the thin film is deposited on the Nb sample and the resistance of the
sample is too small to measure it, we have to use the inductor Tc measurement. Three
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transition temperatures are found during the measurement as shown in Fig. 3.34.
Fig. 3.34 three transition temperature of the Tc curve
Fig. 3.35 Electrical resistivity and superconducting critical temperature as a function
of composition; as-cast alloys of niobium and oxygen.
It is no doubt that the first transition temperature is the Tc of Nb3Sn and the
69. second transition temperature is the Tc of Nb. The third transition temperature is
impossible to be the Tc of Nb5Sn6 or NbSn2, because the Tc of them is no more than
3K [32]. Also, according to the Fig. 3.37 and Fig.3.41, the third transition temperature
is almost invariable with the changing of the Nb sputtering current, which means that
the third transition temperature is also impossible to be the Tc of the mixture of the
Nb5Sn6, NbSn2 and Nb, because if there is the mixture, the Tc should be change with
the different composition of them.
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Fig. 3.36 the possible structure of the sample
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
1.1
1.0
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0.0
-0.1
1A
1.2A
1.4A
1.6A
1.8A
relative intensity
temperature[K]
Fig. 3.37 the transition temperature curve of the sample annealed with 5 minutes
According to the Fig. 3.35 [33], the third transition temperature should be the Tc of
NbOx. When the ratio of Oxygen and Nb is greater than 1.0, the Tc should be about
1.38K. According to the third transition temperature of 7.2K given by the experiment,
70. the ratio of Oxygen and Nb should be about 0.5, which means that there should be a
layer of the mixture of Nb and NbO. Because the Nb3Sn cover the bulk Nb and have
the higher Tc, there is some shielding effect during the temperature between 9.2K to
17K. The shielding effect is different with the Nb sputtering current, but its ruler is
not clear.
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Fig. 3.38 the Tc calculation of Nb3Sn
Fig. 3.39 the Tc calculation of Nb
The possible structure of the sample could be like as the Fig. 3.36. Because the
NbO has a large ratio and the Nb3Sn thin film deposited on the sapphire have no the
third transition temperature, it should not come from the Nb3Sn thin film, and the only
71. source is the bulk Nb sample. Although the sample is preceded with BCP, the NbO
coming from the oxidation with the atmosphere for a long time can not be got rid of
with a short time of 5 minute. So we need to test the more BCP time.
All the other temperature transition curves are shown in Fig. 3.37. Among these
curves, the best is the curve of 1A Nb sputtering current. The calculation method of
the three critical temperatures is shown from Fig. 3.38 to Fig. 3.40.
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Fig. 3.40 the Tc calculation of NbOx
17.8
17.6
17.4
17.2
17.0
16.8
16.6
16.4
16.2
Tc-Nb3Sn
Tc-Nb
Tc-NbOx
Tc-Nb3Sn[K]
9.34
9.32
9.30
Tc-Nb[K]
9.28
9.26
9.24
9.22
9.20
1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8
7.4
7.3
7.2
7.1
7.0
6.9
6.8
Tc-NbOx[K]
current[A]
Fig. 3.41 the Tc calculation result of the sample annealing with 5 minutes
72. The Tc calculation result of the sample annealing with 5 minutes is shown in Fig.
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3.41, which show that the Tc of 1A is the highest temperature.
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1.0
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0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0.0
-0.1
1A
1.2A
1.4A
1.6A
1.8A
relative intensity
temperature[K]
Fig. 3.42 the transition temperature curve of the sample annealed with 10 minutes
17.8
17.6
17.4
17.2
17.0
16.8
16.6
16.4
16.2
Tc-Nb3Sn-10min
Tc-Nb-10min
Tc-NbOx-10min
current[A]
Tc-Nb3Sn[K]
9.30
9.28
9.26
9.24
9.22
9.20
Tc-Nb[K]
0.9 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9
7.4
7.3
7.2
Tc-NbOx[K]
7.1
7.0
6.9
6.8
Fig. 3.43 the Tc calculation result of the sample annealing with 10 minutes
We anneal the second sample of each run for 10 minutes. The temperature
transition of 1A is also the best as shown in Fig. 3.42. The reason of the better result
73. of 1A in the Fig. 3.37 and Fig. 3.42 may be that the thin film is without the Nb cover
layer. About the other curve, the shielding effect is clear compare with the Fig. 3.37,
which is that the higher Nb sputtering current, the more shielding effect, but the
higher Nb sputtering current the lower transition temperature of Nb3Sn.
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0.9 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9
17.8
17.6
17.4
17.2
17.0
16.8
16.6
16.4
16.2
Tc-Nb3Sn-10min
Tc-Nb3Sn-5min
Tc-Nb3Sn[K]
current[A]
Fig. 3.44 comparing the Nb3Sn Tc with the different annealing time
The Tc of Nb3Sn, Nb and NbOx of the sample annealed for 10 minutes are shown
in Fig. 3.43. The Tc of NbOx and Nb should depend on the property of the bulk Nb,
which is same with the sample annealed for 5 minutes. The Tc of Nb3Sn should
depend on the parameters of the sputtering and the annealing. However, the parameter
of annealing has little effect on the Tc as shown in Fig.3.44. Comparing with Fig.3.19,
the Tc of 1A should be lower than that of 1.2A. The reason of the abnormal result may
be the absentation over layer of 1A sample.
3.3.3.2 XRD analysis
The XRD analysis method is same with that in Chapter 2. We do the annealing
experiment for 5 minutes and 10 minutes.
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1A5'IND
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angle[degree]
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3 4
5 6 7
2'
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8
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4'
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Fig. 3.45 the XRD result of Nb sputtering current 1A with annealing for 5 minutes
Table 3.9 the description of the peaks of 1A with annealing for 5 minutes
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9 1011 121314 16 17
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8
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4'
15
Fig. 3.46 the XRD result of Nb sputtering current 1.2A with annealing for 5 minutes
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Table 3.10 the description of the peaks of 1.2A with annealing for 5 minutes
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3 4
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1
8 15
Fig. 3.47 the XRD result of Nb sputtering current 1.4A with annealing for 5 minutes
Table 3.11 the description of the peaks of 1.4A with annealing for 5 minutes
15
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9 1011 121314 16 17
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1'
8
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Fig. 3.48 the XRD result of Nb sputtering current 1.6A with annealing for 5 minutes
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Table 3.12 the description of the peaks of 1.6A with annealing for 5 minutes
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9 1011 121314 16 17
1
1'
8
3'
15
Fig. 3.49 the XRD result of Nb sputtering current 1.8A with annealing for 5 minutes
Table 3.13 the description of the peaks of 1.8A with annealing for 5 minutes
According to the XRD analysis of 5 minutes annealing example, there is no Sn
crystal plane in all of the samples. But there is Nb crystal plane except the sample
with the Nb sputtering current of 1.4A. Only the sample with the Nb sputtering
current of 1.0A has the great peak of the Nb crystal plane, which reason is that the
thin film is not covered with cover layer. The marked peaks with black number are the
crystal plane of Nb3Sn, and that with red number is the crystal plane of Nb.
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3'
1'
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Angle[degree]
1.0A10'-IND
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3 4
5 6 7 9 1011 121314 16 17
1
8 15
2'
Fig. 3.50 the XRD result of Nb sputtering current 1.0A with annealing for 10 minutes
Table 3.14 the description of the peaks of 1.0A with annealing for 10 minutes
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1.2A10'IND
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1'
2
3 4
5 6 7 9 1011 121314 16 17
1
8 15
2'
Fig. 3.51 the XRD result of Nb sputtering current 1.2A with annealing for 10 minutes
Table 3.15 the description of the peaks of 1.2A with annealing for 10 minutes
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8 15
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Fig. 3.52 the XRD result of Nb sputtering current 1.4A with annealing for 10 minutes
Table 3.16 the description of the peaks of 1.4A with annealing for 10 minutes
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1
8 15
2'
Fig. 3.53 the XRD result of Nb sputtering current 1.6A with annealing for 10 minutes
Table 3.17 the description of the peaks of 1.6A with annealing for 10 minutes
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3'
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2
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1
8 15
2' 4'
Fig. 3.54 the XRD result of Nb sputtering current 1.8A with annealing for 10 minutes
Table 3.18 the description of the peaks of 1.8A with annealing for 10 minutes
1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8
0.5294
0.5293
0.5292
0.5291
0.5290
0.5289
0.5288
0.5287
0.5286
0.5285
0.5284
cubic edge length (nm)
current (A)
on Sapphire
on Nb 5 mins
on Nb 10 mins
theory
Fig.3.55 comparison of the cubic edge length between the Nb and sapphire sample
According to the XRD analysis of all of the samples of 10 minutes annealing
example, there are Nb and Nb3Sn crystal plane but not Sn crystal plane. Only the
80. sample with the Nb sputtering current of 1.0A has the great peak of the Nb crystal
plane, but all of the peaks of all samples are smaller than that of 5 minutes annealing.
The cubic edge length of the Nb3Sn thin film on the sapphire and Nb are
calculated and shown in Fig.3.55. The cubic edge length of the thin film depositing on
the sapphire decreases with the increasing of the Nb sputtering current. But the curves
of the Nb sample when the annealing time is different.
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3.4 Conclusion
The Tc of the Nb3Sn multilayer deposited on the sapphire and annealed by the
lamp is about 17K and the RRR of that is about 5. This result is not good enough,
especially for the RRR. So we need more investigation, such as changing the
proceeding gas pressure and so on.
The result of Nb3Sn multilayer deposited on Nb and annealed by the inductor is
also not good enough, but the multilayer without cover layer of Nb seems to have the
better performance, in spite of the peaks of the Nb crystal plane of this kind of film
are higher than the other kinds of. So the next investigation should include the
changing the proceeding gas pressure and comparing the thin film between with and
without the cover layer.
The reason of that multilayer deposition without the over layer is needed for
further investigation is that when we deposit the thin film of Nb3Sn on the accelerator
cavity, it is impossible to use two magnetrons as shown in our experiment, and it is
possible to use a post target [34] for thin film deposit, and then it is some complicated
to change another target if we want to deposit the Nb cover layer.
In the conclusion, there are four jobs needed to do in future: the first job is to
research the effect on the thin film of the proceeding gas pressure; the second job is to
research the effect of the annealing time of the inductor; the third job is to research the
effect of the Nb over layer; the fourth job is to research the deposition on the cavity.
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