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Nb3Sn on Cu Coating By Magnetron Sputtering From Target Synthesized via Liquid Tin Diffusion

Sep 20, 2022, 11:20 AM
20m
CEBAF Center Auditorium

CEBAF Center Auditorium

Beyond Nb: Alternate materials and mulilayer structures Beyond Nb: Alternate materials and mulilayer structures

Speaker

Cristian Pira (INFN LNL)

Description

Nb3Sn on Nb thin films cavities by Tin Vapor Diffusion already show performance at 4.2 K comparable to Nb bulk cavities at 2 K, but a real breakthrough would be the use of copper as substrate, to enhance the thermal conductivity, opening up the possibility to cool down the cavity using cryocoolers instead of the more expensive helium bath.
Magnetron sputtering is the most studied technology for this purpose, however coating substrates with complex geometry (such as elliptical cavities) may require targets with non-planar shape, difficult to achieve with classic powder sintering techniques due to the brittleness of Nb3Sn.
One of the goal of the iFAST project is explored the possibility of using the Liquid Tin Diffusion (LTD) technique to produce sputtering targets for 6 GHz elliptical cavities. The LTD technique is a wire fabrication technology, already developed in the past at LNL for SRF applications, that allows the deposition of very thick and uniform coating on Nb substrates even with complex geometry.
This work reports the latest results and challenges encountered in target development via LTD and the study of the influence of deposition parameters via magnetron sputtering from single target on the properties of Nb3Sn films.

Primary author

Cristian Pira (INFN LNL)

Co-authors

Vanessa Garcia Diaz (LNL-INFN) Eduard Chyhyrynets (LNL - INFN; University of Padua) Alessandro Salmaso (INFN-LNL) Davide Ford (INFN LNL) Luca Torassa (INFN LNL)

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