SRF2013 - List of Authors (Spradlin, J.K.)

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TUP079	ECR Nb Films Grown on Amorphous and Crystalline Cu Substrates: Influence of Ion Energy	631
	A-M. Valente-Feliciano, G.V. Eremeev, H.L. Phillips, C.E. Reece JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA C. Cao Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA Th. Proslier ANL, Argonne, USA J.K. Spradlin JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA T. Tao UIC, Chicago, USA
	Funding: Authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177. In the pursuit of niobium (Nb) films with similar performance with the commonly used bulk Nb surfaces for Superconducting RF (SRF) applications, significant progress has been made with the development of energetic condensation deposition techniques. Using energetic condensation of ions extracted from plasma generated by Electron Cyclotron Resonance, it has been demonstrated that Nb films with good structural properties and RRR comparable to bulk values can be produced on metallic substrates. The controlled incoming ion energy enables a number of processes such as desorption of adsorbed species, enhanced mobility of surface atoms and sub-implantation of impinging ions, thus producing improved film structures at lower process temperatures. Particular attention is given to the nucleation conditions to create a favorable template for growing the final surface exposed to SRF fields. The influence of the deposition energy for both hetero-epitaxial and fiber growth modes on copper substrates is investigated with the characterization of the film surface, structure, superconducting properties and RF performance.

TUP088	NbTiN Based SIS Multilayer Structures for SRF Applications	670
	A-M. Valente-Feliciano, G.V. Eremeev, H.L. Phillips, C.E. Reece JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA A.D. Batchelor NCSU AIF, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA R.A. Lukaszew The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA J.K. Spradlin JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA Q.G. Yang NSU, Norfolk, USA
	Funding: Authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177. For the past three decades, bulk niobium has been the material of choice for SRF cavities applications. RF cavity performance is now approaching the theoretical limit for bulk niobium. For further improvement of RF cavity performance for future accelerator projects, Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor (SIS) multilayer structures (as recently proposed by Alex Gurevich) present the theoretical prospect to reach RF performance beyond bulk Nb, using thinly layered higher-Tc superconductors with enhanced Hc1. Jefferson Lab (JLab) is pursuing this approach with the development of NbTiN and AlN based multilayer SIS structures via magnetron sputtering and High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS). This paper presents the results on the characteristics of NbTiN and insulator films and the first RF measurements on NbTiN-based multilayer structure on thick Nb films.

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ECR Nb Films Grown on Amorphous and Crystalline Cu Substrates: Influence of Ion Energy

631

A-M. Valente-Feliciano, G.V. Eremeev, H.L. Phillips, C.E. Reece
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
C. Cao
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA
Th. Proslier
ANL, Argonne, USA
J.K. Spradlin
JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
T. Tao
UIC, Chicago, USA

Funding: Authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177.
In the pursuit of niobium (Nb) films with similar performance with the commonly used bulk Nb surfaces for Superconducting RF (SRF) applications, significant progress has been made with the development of energetic condensation deposition techniques. Using energetic condensation of ions extracted from plasma generated by Electron Cyclotron Resonance, it has been demonstrated that Nb films with good structural properties and RRR comparable to bulk values can be produced on metallic substrates. The controlled incoming ion energy enables a number of processes such as desorption of adsorbed species, enhanced mobility of surface atoms and sub-implantation of impinging ions, thus producing improved film structures at lower process temperatures. Particular attention is given to the nucleation conditions to create a favorable template for growing the final surface exposed to SRF fields. The influence of the deposition energy for both hetero-epitaxial and fiber growth modes on copper substrates is investigated with the characterization of the film surface, structure, superconducting properties and RF performance.

TUP088

NbTiN Based SIS Multilayer Structures for SRF Applications

670

A-M. Valente-Feliciano, G.V. Eremeev, H.L. Phillips, C.E. Reece
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
A.D. Batchelor
NCSU AIF, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
R.A. Lukaszew
The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA
J.K. Spradlin
JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
Q.G. Yang
NSU, Norfolk, USA

Funding: Authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177.
For the past three decades, bulk niobium has been the material of choice for SRF cavities applications. RF cavity performance is now approaching the theoretical limit for bulk niobium. For further improvement of RF cavity performance for future accelerator projects, Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor (SIS) multilayer structures (as recently proposed by Alex Gurevich) present the theoretical prospect to reach RF performance beyond bulk Nb, using thinly layered higher-Tc superconductors with enhanced Hc1. Jefferson Lab (JLab) is pursuing this approach with the development of NbTiN and AlN based multilayer SIS structures via magnetron sputtering and High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS). This paper presents the results on the characteristics of NbTiN and insulator films and the first RF measurements on NbTiN-based multilayer structure on thick Nb films.