5th International Workshop on "Thin films applied to Superconducting RF and new ideas for pushing the limits of RF Superconductivity"

Name: 5th International Workshop on "Thin films applied to Superconducting RF and new ideas for pushing the limits of RF Superconductivity"
Start: 2012-07-18T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2012-07-20T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Jefferson Lab

Jul 18, 2012, 8:00 AM → Jul 20, 2012, 4:00 PM US/Eastern

F113 (Jefferson Lab)

F113

Jefferson Lab

Anne-Marie Valente-feliciano (JLAB), Larry Phillips (JLAB)

Wed, July 18
- 8:30 AM → 9:00 AM
  
  Registration and Continental Breakfast 30m
  
  Nametags, paperwork, and visitor WPA2 key
- 9:00 AM → 10:15 AM
  Workshop Opening
  
  Convener: Anne-Marie Valente-Feliciano (JLAB)
  - 9:00 AM
    
    Welcome 5m
    
    Speaker: Andrew Hutton (JLab)
  - 9:05 AM
    
    Workshop Logistics 10m
    
    Speaker: Anne-Marie Valente-Feliciano (JLAB)
    
    Slides
  - 9:15 AM
    
    Landscape for SRF Thin Films 30m
    
    Speaker: Larry Phillips (JLab)
    
    Slides
  - 9:45 AM
    
    Accelerator Driven Systems and SRF Thin Films 30m
    
    Speaker: Roland Johnson (Muons Inc.)
    
    Slides
- 10:15 AM → 11:00 AM
  Session We1: Energetic Condensation
  
  Convener: André Anders (LBL)
  - 10:15 AM
    
    Review on Energetic Deposition 45m
    
    Speaker: Anne-Marie Valente-Feliciano (JLAB)
    
    Slides
- 11:00 AM → 11:30 AM
  
  Break 30m
- 11:30 AM → 12:30 PM
  Session We2: Nb films via Energetic condensation
  
  Convener: Mahadevan Krishnan (AASC Inc.)
  - 11:30 AM
    
    Niobium coatings for SRF cavities produced by high power impulse magnetron sputtering 30m
    
    Speaker: Rueben Mendelsberg (ANL/LBL)
    
    Slides
  - 12:00 PM
    
    Strong localization of ionization in high power impulse magnetron sputtering: An enabling route to niobium plasma coatings of SRF cavities 30m
    
    Speaker: André Anders (LBNL)
    
    Slides
- 12:30 PM → 1:30 PM
  
  Lunch Break 1h
  
  Quark Cafe
- 1:30 PM → 3:00 PM
  Session We3: Nb Films via Energetic Condensation
  
  Convener: Larry Phillips (JLAB)
  - 1:30 PM
    
    Nb films produced by Energetic Condensation via ECR 30m
    
    Speaker: Anne-Marie Valente-Feliciano (JLAB)
    
    Slides
  - 2:00 PM
    
    Understanding of growth mechanism of high RRR Nb films on MgO substrate 30m
    
    Speaker: Zuhawn Sung (FSU)
    
    Slides
  - 2:30 PM
    
    Superconducting Nb thin film coatings to decrease impedance of unshielded accelerator bellows 30m
    
    Speaker: James Colt (AASC Inc.)
    
    Slides
- 3:00 PM → 3:30 PM
  
  Open Discussion on Energetic condensation & Nb Films
- 3:30 PM → 4:00 PM
  
  Break 30m
- 4:00 PM → 6:00 PM
  Session We4: Materials other than Nb and Multilayers - A15 & MgB2
  - 4:00 PM
    
    MgB2 Thin Films for SRF Cavities 30m
    
    Speaker: Xi Xiaoxing (Temple University)
    
    Slides
  - 4:30 PM
    
    MgB2 Thin Films for SRF and Microwave Electronic Applications 30m
    
    Speaker: Daniel Oates (MIT Lincoln Lab)
    
    Slides
  - 5:00 PM
    
    Thickness dependence of superconducting properties in MgB2 thin films 30m
    
    Speaker: Douglas Beringer (College William & Mary)
    
    Slides
  - 5:30 PM
    
    Composite thin film superconductors for SRF applications grown using energetic condensation 30m
    
    Speaker: Mahadevan Krishnan
    
    Slides
- 6:00 PM → 11:00 PM
  
  Workshop Dinner 5h
  
  Departure for the Freight Shed at 6:00 pm
Thu, July 19
- 8:00 AM → 8:30 AM
  
  Continental breakfast 30m
- 8:30 AM → 10:00 AM
  Session Th1: Materials other than Nb and Multilayers
  
  Convener: Anne-Marie Valente-Feliciano (JLAB)
  - 8:30 AM
    
    Niobium Nitride Thin Films for Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities 30m
    
    Speaker: William Roach (College William & Mary)
    
    Slides
  - 9:00 AM
    
    HIGH TEMPERATURE METATHESIS FOR THE PREPARATION OF Nb3GaAl SUPERCONDUCTORS 30m
    
    Speaker: Enzo Palmieri (INFN-LNL, Italy)
    
    Slides
  - 9:30 AM
    
    Improvement of multilayer film growth for accelerator cavity by ECR deposition 30m
    
    Speaker: Jiao Fei (Peking University, China)
    
    Slides
- 10:00 AM → 10:30 AM
  
  Open Discussion on Materials other than Niobium and Multilayers
- 10:30 AM → 11:00 AM
  
  Break 30m
- 11:00 AM → 1:00 PM
  Session Th2: RF Performance, Material Analyses & Theory
  
  Convener: Xi Xiaoxing (Temple University)
  - 11:00 AM
    
    Crystal quality measurement on Niobium films and bulk materials 30m
    
    Speaker: Xin Zhao (JLab)
    
    Slides
  - 11:30 AM
    
    Point Contact Tunneling as a Surface Superconductivity Probe of bulk Nb and (NbxTi1-x )N Thin Films 30m
    
    Speaker: Chaoyue Cao (IIT)
    
    Slides
  - 12:00 PM
    
    Studies of magnetic flux distribution in Nb samples by Bitter decoration technique 30m
    
    Speaker: Fedor Barkov (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
  - 12:30 PM
    
    Comparison of Mesoscopic Nonlinear Electrodynamic Response of Bulk Nb and High Quality MgB2 Films 30m
    
    Speaker: Tamin Tai (University of Maryland)
    
    Slides
- 1:00 PM → 2:00 PM
  
  Lunch Break 1h
- 2:00 PM → 3:30 PM
  Session Th3: RF Performance, Material Analyses & Theory
  
  Convener: Charles Reece (JLab)
  - 2:00 PM
    
    Sample testing with the Quadrupole Resonator - A way to obtain RF results over a wide parameter range 30m
    
    Speaker: Sarah Aull (CERN, Switzerland)
    
    Slides
  - 2:30 PM
    
    TE cavity develpements at Cornell University 30m
    
    Speaker: Yi Xie (Cornell University)
    
    Slides
  - 3:00 PM
    
    Evaluation of SRF thin film properties using a microstrip disk resonator 30m
    
    Speaker: Daniel Bowring (LBNL)
    
    Slides
- 3:30 PM → 4:00 PM
  
  Break 30m
- 4:00 PM → 5:30 PM
  Session Th4: RF Performance, Material Analyses & Theory
  
  Convener: Prof. Steven Anlage (University of Maryland)
  - 4:00 PM
    
    Near surface superconductivity of niobium cavity cutouts probed by low energy muon spin rotation 30m
    
    Speaker: Anna Grassellino (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
  - 4:30 PM
    
    Inner workings of the 120C baking effect studied by positron annihilation 30m
    
    Speaker: Alexander Romanenko (Fermilab)
    
    Slides
  - 5:00 PM
    
    RF Nonlinearity in Thin-Film and Bulk Superconductors: A Mechanism for Cavity Q-Drop 30m
    
    Speaker: Behnood Ghamsari (University of Maryland)
    
    Slides
- 5:30 PM → 6:00 PM
  
  Open Discussion on RF Performance, Material Analyses & Theory
Fri, July 20
- 8:30 AM → 9:00 AM
  
  Continental Breakfast 30m
- 9:00 AM → 10:30 AM
  Session Fr1: Innovative processing for SRF surfaces
  - 9:00 AM
    
    Development of Plasma Processing Technologies for SRF Cavities 30m
    
    Speaker: Janardan Upadhyay (Old Dominion University)
    
    Slides
  - 9:30 AM
    
    Purification of 6GHz resonators at extremely high temperatures at atmospheric pressure 30m
    
    Speaker: Enzo Palmieri (INFN-LNL, Italy)
    
    Slides
  - 10:00 AM
    
    Fabrication and Testing of ILC Cavities Produced from Seamless Nb Tubes 30m
    
    Speaker: Roy Crooks (Black Labs, LLC)
    
    Slides
- 10:30 AM → 11:00 AM
  
  Break 30m
- 11:00 AM → 11:30 AM
  
  Open Discussion on Innovative processing for SRF Surfaces
- 11:30 AM → 12:00 PM
  
  Workshop summary
- 12:00 PM → 2:00 PM
  
  Lunch break 2h
- 2:00 PM → 4:00 PM
  
  JLab tour