PROJECTS

Projects

In the period since its founding, Euclid TechLabs LLC has established a reputation for its development of advanced dielectric materials for the particle accelerator and microwave communities. Our expertise includes:

  • High uniformity, low loss ceramics
  • Ferroelectrics
  • CVD diamond structures
  • Superconducting structures
  • Numerical modeling and simulation
  • Accelerator instrumentation and control

Much of our effort is directed towards particle acceleration technologies based on Dielectric Loaded Accelerator (DLA) structures. These devices use electromagnetic waves (typically in the 1-100 GHz frequency range) propagating in a dielectric cavity to accelerate electrons. There are numerous variations on this approach, depending on whether the cavity is powered by a drive beam or external rf source, the configuration of the cavity, and the properties of the dielectric(s) used for its construction.

A brief overview of DLA technology, "High Power Rf Generation by Relativistic Beams in Dielectric Structures", J. Appl. Phys. 84 663 (1998), is available here.

Project Area Collaboration Status
Transformer Ratio Enhancement Experiment for Next Generation Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator Beam Physics; DLA ANL SBIR II Completed
Ferroelectric Switch for Active RF Pulse Compressor/Fast X-Band Phase Shifter NL Dielectrics Omega-P Completed
Development of a Tunable Dielectric Loaded Accelerating Structure DLA; NL Dielectrics ANL Phase I Completed
Low Loss Ferroelectric Material Development for Accelerator Application NL Dielectrics ANL Ongoing
Low Loss Microwave Ceramics Dielectrics ANL/NRL
Active Microwave Media Advanced Concepts, Numerical Modeling SBIR II
X-Band PASER Demonstration Experiment Advanced Concepts, Beam Measurements ANL/Technion SBIR II
Traveling Wave Superconducting Structures ILC, Superconducting RF FNAL SBIR II
Accelerator Applications of CVD Diamond DLA, RF Sources NRL/UCLA SBIR I Completed
RF Design of Externally Powered Dielectric Structures DLA ANL/NRL SBIR I Completed
FPGA Applications for Accelerator Control Systems Instrumentation/Controls Tech-X/SLAC Completed
Development of Metamaterials for Cherenkov Radiation Based Particle Detectors Instrumentation ANL/Penn State Phase I
Development of a Diamond-based Cylindrical Dielectric Loaded Accelerating Structure DLA ANL Phase I
Development of a Transverse Mode Damped Dielectric-Loaded Accelerating Structure DLA ANL Phase I