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TY - CONF AU - Misra, N. AU - Hannah, A.N. AU - Valizadeh, R. ED - Boland, Mark ED - Tanaka, Hitoshi ED - Button, David ED - Dowd, Rohan ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Tan, Eugene TI - Facile Deposition of Superconducting MgB₂ Thin Films on Substrates: A Comparative Investigation of Electrochemical Deposition and Magnetron Sputtering Techniques J2 - Proc. of IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 May 2019 CY - Melbourne, Australia T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 10 LA - english AB - Coating of Copper cavities with a superconducting layer of MgB₂ thin film is an attractive alternative to bulk Nb cavities. In this work, we investigate the application of two approaches-electrochemical deposition and magnetron sputtering of MgB₂, to fabricate MgB₂ films with potential accelerator applications. In the first approach, MgB₂ powder dispersed in acetone was used as an electrolytic medium. Application of a DC voltage of 400 V between a graphite anode and a Copper film (serving as cathode), with the electrode distance maintained at ~2cm, resulted in the electrochemical deposition of MgB₂ on the Cu surface. In an alternate approach, MgB₂ in powder form was used directly for sputtering based deposition. The powder was initially compacted to form a thin layer that served as the magnetron target. Application of a pulsed DC power of 25W for 4 hours yielded MgB₂ thin film on Si substrates. Samples were characterized by XPS analysis to ascertain their elemental composition, which confirmed the presence of Mg and B, in addition to traces of C and O as impurities. Surface morphology was determined using SEM characterization technique. Further work to determine the superconducting properties of the samples and fine tune the deposition processes for large scale MgB₂ deposition inside actual RF cavities is in progress. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 2984 EP - 2986 KW - cavity KW - site KW - superconductivity KW - target KW - FEL DA - 2019/06 PY - 2019 SN - 978-3-95450-208-0 DO - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-WEPRB070 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2019/papers/weprb070.pdf ER -