SURFACE ROUGHNESS REDUCTION AND PERFORMANCE OF Nb3Sn FILM FOR SRF APPLICATIONS
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Nb3Sn offers better RF performance (Q and Eacc) than Nb at any given temperature because of its superior superconducting properties. The potential deployment of Nb3Sn-coated SRF cavities at 4 K, delivering similar performance to that of Nb cavities at 2 K, will be a transformational technology to enable new classes of SRF accelerator applications. A clean and smooth surface can enhance the performance of the Nb3Sn-coated cavity, typically, the attainable acceleration gradient. The reduction of surface roughness is often linked with a correlative reduction in average coating thickness and grain size. A new approach to enhance the nucleation centers using the pre-deposition of Sn on Nb is introduced for surface roughness reduction. Besides Sn supply's careful tuning, the temperature profiles were varied to engineer the coating surface with reduced roughness as low as ~40 nm in 20 µm × 20 µm AFM scans, one-third that of the typical coating. Electropolishing of coated sample shows surface a clear surface smoothening. A few sets of coating parameters were used to coat 1.3 GHz sin-gle-cell cavities to understand the effects of roughness variation on the RF performance. This presentation discusses ways to reduce surface roughness with results from a systematic analysis of the samples and Nb3Sn-coated single-cell cavities.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-06OR23177
- OSTI ID:
- 2211391
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-ACC-23-3968; DOE/OR/23177-7289
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: SRF2023 (21st International Conference on Radio-Frequency Superconductivity), Grand Rapids, MI, USA, June 25, 2023
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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