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Title: Method for producing smooth inner surfaces

Abstract

The invention provides a method for preparing superconducting cavities, the method comprising causing polishing media to tumble by centrifugal barrel polishing within the cavities for a time sufficient to attain a surface smoothness of less than 15 nm root mean square roughness over approximately a 1 mm.sup.2 scan area. The method also provides for a method for preparing superconducting cavities, the method comprising causing polishing media bound to a carrier to tumble within the cavities. The method also provides for a method for preparing superconducting cavities, the method comprising causing polishing media in a slurry to tumble within the cavities.

Inventors:
Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1253340
Patent Number(s):
9343649
Application Number:
14/678,139
Assignee:
U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, DC)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B24 - GRINDING B24B - MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING
H - ELECTRICITY H05 - ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR H05H - PLASMA TECHNIQUE
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2015 Apr 03
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Cooper, Charles A. Method for producing smooth inner surfaces. United States: N. p., 2016. Web.
Cooper, Charles A. Method for producing smooth inner surfaces. United States.
Cooper, Charles A. Tue . "Method for producing smooth inner surfaces". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1253340.
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year = {Tue May 17 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
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Works referenced in this record:

Apparatus for the electrolytic polishing of niobium structures
patent, February 1976


Method of manufacturing superconducting radio-frequency acceleration cavity
patent, December 2012


Surface treatment method for vacuum member
patent, August 2013