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TUPH04	Progress on the Final Design of the APS-Upgrade Storage Ring Vacuum System	vacuum, storage-ring, photon, electron	30
	J.A. Carter, B. Billett, B. Brajuskovic, M.A. Lale, A. McElderry, J. R. Noonan, M.M. O'Neill, K. Wakefield, D.R. Walters, G.E. Wiemerslage, J. Zientek ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA
	Funding: Argonne National Laboratory's work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357 The final design phase is underway for the APS-Upgrade project's storage ring vacuum system. Many aspects of the design are being worked on to address challenging interfaces and to optimize vacuum system performance. Examples of recent work include updates to ray tracing and vacuum analysis, new developments in vacuum chamber and photon absorber design, and further refinement of vacuum pumping plans to achieve the best possible pressure distributions. Recent R&D work and results from a vacuum system sector mockup have also informed designs and installation plans. An overview of progress in these areas and remaining challenges is pre-sented.
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TUPH10	Interfaces with Operational Systems APS Upgrade Project Removal and Installation	vacuum, controls, storage-ring, monitoring	43
	R.W. Connatser ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA
	Funding: Created by UChicago Argonne, LLC, Operator of Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory, is operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. A critical time for the APS Upgrade Project is the twelve month dark period in which the current accelerator, front ends, and insertion devices will be removed and the new MBA will be installed. In addition to the technical interfaces, there are a significant number of operational support systems and utilities that will be affected. For the dark period to be a success, these additional interfaces need to be described and their interaction with the removal and installation processes defined. This poster describes many of these additional systems and their interfaces.
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TUPH15	Friction Stir Welding Attempts for UHV Applications: Stainless Steel/Aluminum	HOM, site, factory	57
	A. Ermakov, C. Martens, U. Naujoks DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	At DESY in Hamburg an investigation was started to join aluminum chambers with stainless steel flanges by friction stir welding. First results will be presented. It will be shown that there is only a small effect of hardening in the contact zone at the stainless-steel side, a small amount of particles are given and the diffusion zone is about 3 microns, but with a very irregular effect on the structured junction. Because of that, the influence of the surface and the welding parameters on the process will be investigated in the future.
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TUPH25	Morphologies of Oxygen-Free Titanium and Palladium/Titanium Thin Films: New Non-Evaporable Getter (NEG) Coatings	vacuum, electron, site, experiment	84
	T. Miyazawa Sokendai, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Tsukuba, Japan A.H. Hashimoto, M. Yamanaka NIMS, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan T. Kikuchi, K. Mase KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
	Funding: This research was partly supported by a TIA-Kakehashi grant and by the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy based on Nanomaterials Science. Non-evaporable getter (NEG) coatings are ideal for maintaining an ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) in the range 10^'8 Pa and they are widely used for accelerators because they are oil free, magnetic-field free, vibration free, economical, space saving, and energy efficient. We recently fabricated new NEG coatings consisting of low-oxygen-content Ti or oxygen-free Pd/Ti by sublimation under a clean UHV in the range 10^'8 to 10^'7 Pa []. Here, we report the determination of the morphologies of these films by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, scanning transmission electron microscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. The Ti and Pd films had almost uniform thicknesses of about 1.3 'm and 50 nm, respectively, and the Pd film completely overcoated the Ti film. Both the Pd and Ti thin films were uniformly deposited in plane on the stainless steel 304L substrate and they had polycrystalline structures. The interface between the Pd and Ti thin films was not abrupt. T. Miyazawa, K. Tobishima, H. Kato, M. Kurihara, S. Ohno, T. Kikuchi, and K. Mase, Vac. Surf. Sci. 61, 227 (2018).
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WEOAMA05	FE Model of a Nanopositioning Flexure Stage for Diagnosis of Trajectory Errors	experiment, photon, simulation, laser	179
	S.P. Kearney, D. Shu ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA
	Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. The Advanced Photon Source Upgrade project includes upgrading several beamlines, which desire nanopositioning and fly-scan capabilities. A step towards achieving this is through the use of flexure stages with minimal trajectory errors. Typically, parasitic motion is on the order of micrometer-level displacements and tens of microradian-level rotations [1]. The cause of such errors is difficult to diagnosis due to the scale and complexity of the overall mechanism. Therefore, an FE model of a flexure pivot nanopositioning stage with centimeter-level travel range [1, 2] has been developed to aid in trajectory error diagnosis. Previous work used an FE model and relative error analysis to quantify the effects of assembly error on trajectory errors [3]. Relative error analysis was used due to the difficulty in validating a complex FE model. This study develops an experimentally validated FE model of a single joint to quantify the expected error in the full FE model. The full model is then compared experimentally to the flexure stage to assess the model accuracy and diagnosis trajectory errors. * D. Shu, et al. In Proc. SPIE, vol. 10371, 2017. U.S. Patent granted No. 8,957, 567, D. Shu, S. Kearney, and C. Preissner, 2015. * S. Kearney and D. Shu. In Proc. SPIE, vol. 10371, 2017.
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WEOPMA07	Development of a New Sub-4k ARPES Endstation at PSI	radiation, ISOL, cryogenics, synchrotron	193
	D. Trutmann, S. Hasanaj, St. Maag, L. Nue, A. Pfister, P.N. Plumb, A. Schwarb, S. Shi, K.M. Zehnder PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
	Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) project number 206021₁64016 In spring 2016 a project was started to renew the high-resolution ARPES endstation of the Surface/Interface Spectroscopy (SIS) beamline at PSI. The focus lay on achieving sample temperatures below 4 K while maintaining 6 degrees of freedom. This made it necessary to redesign all thermally active parts, such as the connection to the cryostat, the flexible braid that enables the tilt and azimuthal movement, the sample clamping as well as the thermal isolators that hold the clamping device in place. A newly introduced shield in the main analyser chamber, cooled by separate cryopumps, is used to remove nearly all radiation heat load. A major milestone has recently been taken, by running cryogenic tests on a test stand. The simplified setup reached sample temperatures of 3.35 K. The temperature loss from the cryostat to the sample was as low as 0.6 K. Encouraged by these results, it is believed that the final endstation will be able to reach temperatures even below 3 K. With the new cryo concept, the thermal performance seems to be mainly limited by the radiative heat load emitted by the analyser lens. The new endstation is planned to be in operation by spring 2019.
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THOAMA04	Design and FEA of an Innovative Rotating Sic Filter for High-Energy X-Ray Beam	radiation, simulation, storage-ring, scattering	306
	W. Tizzano, T. Connolley, S. Davies, M. Drakopoulos, G.E. Howell DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
	I12 is a high-energy imaging, diffraction and scattering beamline at Diamond. Its source is a superconducting wiggler with a power of approximately 9kW at 500 mA after the fixed front-end aperture; two permanent filters aim at reducing the power in photons below the operating range of the beamline of 50-150 keV, which accounts for about two-thirds of the total. This paper focuses on the design and simulation process of the secondary permanent filter, a 4mm thick SiC disk. The first version of the filter was vulnerable to cracking due to thermally induced stress, so a new filter based on an innovative concept was proposed: a water-cooled shaft rotates, via a ceramic interface, the SiC disk; the disk operates up to 900 degrees C, and a copper absorber surrounding the filter dissipates the heat through radiation. We utilised analysis data following failure of an initial prototype to successfully model the heat flow using FEA. This model informed different iterations of the re-design of the assembly, addressing the issues identified. The operational temperature of the final product matches within a few degrees C the one predicted by the simulation. M. Drakopoulos et al., "I12: the Joint Engineering, Environment and Processing (JEEP) beamline at Diamond Light Source".
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THPH12	Granite Benches for Sirius X-ray Optical Systems	alignment, GUI, experiment, synchrotron	361
	R.R. Geraldes, C.S.N.C. Bueno, G.V. Claudiano, V.Z. Ferreira, M. Saveri Silva, A. Sikorski, M.S. Souza LNLS, Campinas, Brazil
	Funding: Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (MCTIC) The first set of Sirius beamlines is expected to start operating in early 2019 and over the last few years many optical systems for the X-ray beamlines have been developed in-house at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS). Starting with the High-Dynamic Double Crystal Monochromator (HD-DCM), passing by the Double Channel-Cut Monochromator (4CM) and continuing with new standard mirror sys-tems, a series of granite benches, based on high-resolution levellers, and a combination of embedded and commercial air-bearings, has been designed for high mechanical and thermal stability. Specifications, designs, and partial results are presented, showing the progressive increase in complexity according to a deterministic design approach.
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THPH18	A Multi-sample Holder for the MSPD Beamline at ALBA	operation, GUI, synchrotron, electronics	377
	J.B. González Fernández, F. Farré París, F. Fauth, P. Pedreira, D. Roldán, X. Serra Gallifa ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
	At the high resolution powder diffraction end station of the Materials Science and Powder Diffraction (MSPD) beamline at ALBA Synchrotron, several samples are measured on a daily basis. Thus, an automatic sample exchanger is a great asset to the beamline, permitting a more efficient use of beam time. Even if a robot arm is the more suitable option for a sample exchanger device, in terms of cost, compactness and versatility MSPD needs another approach. ALBA engineering division has developed a multi-sample holder that allows the loading of up to eight samples and exchanging between them with a resolution of less than a micron. This new design consists of a customized and motorized linear stage that has been designed to fit into the present three-circles diffractometer, on top of the positioning stages, avoiding any possible collision with the Eulerian cradle. In addition, this new holder permits the use of different types of samples like capillaries in fast spinners, coin cell batteries and electrochemical cells. Finally, the system is compatible with the usual sample conditioning equipment on the end station such as the hot blower, cryostream, beamstop, chiller, etc.
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TUPH04

Progress on the Final Design of the APS-Upgrade Storage Ring Vacuum System

vacuum, storage-ring, photon, electron

30

J.A. Carter, B. Billett, B. Brajuskovic, M.A. Lale, A. McElderry, J. R. Noonan, M.M. O'Neill, K. Wakefield, D.R. Walters, G.E. Wiemerslage, J. Zientek
ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA

Funding: Argonne National Laboratory's work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357
The final design phase is underway for the APS-Upgrade project's storage ring vacuum system. Many aspects of the design are being worked on to address challenging interfaces and to optimize vacuum system performance. Examples of recent work include updates to ray tracing and vacuum analysis, new developments in vacuum chamber and photon absorber design, and further refinement of vacuum pumping plans to achieve the best possible pressure distributions. Recent R&D work and results from a vacuum system sector mockup have also informed designs and installation plans. An overview of progress in these areas and remaining challenges is pre-sented.

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TUPH10

Interfaces with Operational Systems APS Upgrade Project Removal and Installation

vacuum, controls, storage-ring, monitoring

43

R.W. Connatser
ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA

Funding: Created by UChicago Argonne, LLC, Operator of Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory, is operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
A critical time for the APS Upgrade Project is the twelve month dark period in which the current accelerator, front ends, and insertion devices will be removed and the new MBA will be installed. In addition to the technical interfaces, there are a significant number of operational support systems and utilities that will be affected. For the dark period to be a success, these additional interfaces need to be described and their interaction with the removal and installation processes defined. This poster describes many of these additional systems and their interfaces.

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TUPH15

Friction Stir Welding Attempts for UHV Applications: Stainless Steel/Aluminum

HOM, site, factory

57

A. Ermakov, C. Martens, U. Naujoks
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

At DESY in Hamburg an investigation was started to join aluminum chambers with stainless steel flanges by friction stir welding. First results will be presented. It will be shown that there is only a small effect of hardening in the contact zone at the stainless-steel side, a small amount of particles are given and the diffusion zone is about 3 microns, but with a very irregular effect on the structured junction. Because of that, the influence of the surface and the welding parameters on the process will be investigated in the future.

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TUPH25

Morphologies of Oxygen-Free Titanium and Palladium/Titanium Thin Films: New Non-Evaporable Getter (NEG) Coatings

vacuum, electron, site, experiment

84

T. Miyazawa
Sokendai, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
A.H. Hashimoto, M. Yamanaka
NIMS, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
T. Kikuchi, K. Mase
KEK, Tsukuba, Japan

Funding: This research was partly supported by a TIA-Kakehashi grant and by the Global Research Center for Environment and Energy based on Nanomaterials Science.
Non-evaporable getter (NEG) coatings are ideal for maintaining an ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) in the range 10^'8 Pa and they are widely used for accelerators because they are oil free, magnetic-field free, vibration free, economical, space saving, and energy efficient. We recently fabricated new NEG coatings consisting of low-oxygen-content Ti or oxygen-free Pd/Ti by sublimation under a clean UHV in the range 10^'8 to 10^'7 Pa [*]. Here, we report the determination of the morphologies of these films by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, scanning transmission electron microscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. The Ti and Pd films had almost uniform thicknesses of about 1.3 'm and 50 nm, respectively, and the Pd film completely overcoated the Ti film. Both the Pd and Ti thin films were uniformly deposited in plane on the stainless steel 304L substrate and they had polycrystalline structures. The interface between the Pd and Ti thin films was not abrupt.
* T. Miyazawa, K. Tobishima, H. Kato, M. Kurihara, S. Ohno, T. Kikuchi, and K. Mase, Vac. Surf. Sci. 61, 227 (2018).

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WEOAMA05

FE Model of a Nanopositioning Flexure Stage for Diagnosis of Trajectory Errors

experiment, photon, simulation, laser

179

S.P. Kearney, D. Shu
ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA

Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
The Advanced Photon Source Upgrade project includes upgrading several beamlines, which desire nanopositioning and fly-scan capabilities. A step towards achieving this is through the use of flexure stages with minimal trajectory errors. Typically, parasitic motion is on the order of micrometer-level displacements and tens of microradian-level rotations [1]. The cause of such errors is difficult to diagnosis due to the scale and complexity of the overall mechanism. Therefore, an FE model of a flexure pivot nanopositioning stage with centimeter-level travel range [1, 2] has been developed to aid in trajectory error diagnosis. Previous work used an FE model and relative error analysis to quantify the effects of assembly error on trajectory errors [3]. Relative error analysis was used due to the difficulty in validating a complex FE model. This study develops an experimentally validated FE model of a single joint to quantify the expected error in the full FE model. The full model is then compared experimentally to the flexure stage to assess the model accuracy and diagnosis trajectory errors.
* D. Shu, et al. In Proc. SPIE, vol. 10371, 2017.
** U.S. Patent granted No. 8,957, 567, D. Shu, S. Kearney, and C. Preissner, 2015.
*** S. Kearney and D. Shu. In Proc. SPIE, vol. 10371, 2017.

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WEOPMA07

Development of a New Sub-4k ARPES Endstation at PSI

radiation, ISOL, cryogenics, synchrotron

193

D. Trutmann, S. Hasanaj, St. Maag, L. Nue, A. Pfister, P.N. Plumb, A. Schwarb, S. Shi, K.M. Zehnder
PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) project number 206021₁64016
In spring 2016 a project was started to renew the high-resolution ARPES endstation of the Surface/Interface Spectroscopy (SIS) beamline at PSI. The focus lay on achieving sample temperatures below 4 K while maintaining 6 degrees of freedom. This made it necessary to redesign all thermally active parts, such as the connection to the cryostat, the flexible braid that enables the tilt and azimuthal movement, the sample clamping as well as the thermal isolators that hold the clamping device in place. A newly introduced shield in the main analyser chamber, cooled by separate cryopumps, is used to remove nearly all radiation heat load. A major milestone has recently been taken, by running cryogenic tests on a test stand. The simplified setup reached sample temperatures of 3.35 K. The temperature loss from the cryostat to the sample was as low as 0.6 K. Encouraged by these results, it is believed that the final endstation will be able to reach temperatures even below 3 K. With the new cryo concept, the thermal performance seems to be mainly limited by the radiative heat load emitted by the analyser lens. The new endstation is planned to be in operation by spring 2019.

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THOAMA04

Design and FEA of an Innovative Rotating Sic Filter for High-Energy X-Ray Beam

radiation, simulation, storage-ring, scattering

306

W. Tizzano, T. Connolley, S. Davies, M. Drakopoulos, G.E. Howell
DLS, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

I12 is a high-energy imaging, diffraction and scattering beamline at Diamond. Its source is a superconducting wiggler with a power of approximately 9kW at 500 mA after the fixed front-end aperture; two permanent filters aim at reducing the power in photons below the operating range of the beamline of 50-150 keV, which accounts for about two-thirds of the total*. This paper focuses on the design and simulation process of the secondary permanent filter, a 4mm thick SiC disk. The first version of the filter was vulnerable to cracking due to thermally induced stress, so a new filter based on an innovative concept was proposed: a water-cooled shaft rotates, via a ceramic interface, the SiC disk; the disk operates up to 900 degrees C, and a copper absorber surrounding the filter dissipates the heat through radiation. We utilised analysis data following failure of an initial prototype to successfully model the heat flow using FEA. This model informed different iterations of the re-design of the assembly, addressing the issues identified. The operational temperature of the final product matches within a few degrees C the one predicted by the simulation.
*M. Drakopoulos et al., "I12: the Joint Engineering, Environment and Processing (JEEP) beamline at Diamond Light Source".

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THPH12

Granite Benches for Sirius X-ray Optical Systems

alignment, GUI, experiment, synchrotron

361

R.R. Geraldes, C.S.N.C. Bueno, G.V. Claudiano, V.Z. Ferreira, M. Saveri Silva, A. Sikorski, M.S. Souza
LNLS, Campinas, Brazil

Funding: Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (MCTIC)
The first set of Sirius beamlines is expected to start operating in early 2019 and over the last few years many optical systems for the X-ray beamlines have been developed in-house at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS). Starting with the High-Dynamic Double Crystal Monochromator (HD-DCM), passing by the Double Channel-Cut Monochromator (4CM) and continuing with new standard mirror sys-tems, a series of granite benches, based on high-resolution levellers, and a combination of embedded and commercial air-bearings, has been designed for high mechanical and thermal stability. Specifications, designs, and partial results are presented, showing the progressive increase in complexity according to a deterministic design approach.

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THPH18

A Multi-sample Holder for the MSPD Beamline at ALBA

operation, GUI, synchrotron, electronics

377

J.B. González Fernández, F. Farré París, F. Fauth, P. Pedreira, D. Roldán, X. Serra Gallifa
ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

At the high resolution powder diffraction end station of the Materials Science and Powder Diffraction (MSPD) beamline at ALBA Synchrotron, several samples are measured on a daily basis. Thus, an automatic sample exchanger is a great asset to the beamline, permitting a more efficient use of beam time. Even if a robot arm is the more suitable option for a sample exchanger device, in terms of cost, compactness and versatility MSPD needs another approach. ALBA engineering division has developed a multi-sample holder that allows the loading of up to eight samples and exchanging between them with a resolution of less than a micron. This new design consists of a customized and motorized linear stage that has been designed to fit into the present three-circles diffractometer, on top of the positioning stages, avoiding any possible collision with the Eulerian cradle. In addition, this new holder permits the use of different types of samples like capillaries in fast spinners, coin cell batteries and electrochemical cells. Finally, the system is compatible with the usual sample conditioning equipment on the end station such as the hot blower, cryostream, beamstop, chiller, etc.

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