EUCLID TECHLABS NEWS
Euclid Awarded 2009 DOE Phase II SBIR
"Development of a Diamond-Based Cylindrical Dielectric Loaded Accelerating Structure"
The principal goal of this project is a development and demonstration of a new type of cylindrical Dielectric Loaded Accelerating (DLA) structure based on a diamond waveguide. Our choice of CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) diamond as a loading material will allow demonstration of high accelerating gradients as high as 0.5-1.0 GV/m as long as the diamond surface can sustain a 0.5-1.0 GV/m breakdown short pulse (~ 10ns) rf field. Diamond has the lowest coefficient of thermal expansion, highest thermal conductivity and extremely low loss tangent (<10-4) at Ka-W frequency bands. Multipacting performance of the CVD diamond can be dramatically suppressed by diamond surface dehydrogenation. Given these remarkable properties, it should come as no surprise that diamonds should find a special place in Advanced Accelerator Concepts development. Note that the CVD process technology is rapidly developing making the CVD diamond fabrication process really fast and inexpensive.
Euclid Awarded Five 2009 DOE Phase I SBIR Grants
"A New Quarter-Wave Coaxial Coupler for 1.3 GHZ Superconducting Cavity"
"Ferroelectric Based High Power Components for L-Band Accelerator Applications"
"A Compact Electronics Module for the Small Accelerator Facility: A Measurement System for Charge, Position, and RF Phase"
"Numerical Algorithms for Dispersive, Active, and Nonlinear Media with Applications to the Paser"
"Nonlinear Ferroelectric Material Development for L-Band Accelerator Applications"
Upcoming Conferences
IPAC10 International Paricle Accelerator Conference, Kyoto, Japan, May 23-28 2010
Advanced Accelerator Concepts Annapolis MD, June 13-19 2010
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