Vacuum protection system using an interlocked fast-closing valvefor a high-power wiggler beam line

The finite-element method was used to calculate a rise in temperature at a fast-closing valve (FCV) blade during exposure to intense synchrotron radiation from a 53-pole wiggler at the 2.5-GeV Photon Factory storage ring. The results indicate a possible meltdown of the titanium-alloy blade within 0.1 s at a maximum beam current of 500 mA, making the vacuum protection function of the FCV ineffective for an instantaneous vacuum failure downstream of the wiggler beam line. In order to prevent the blade from melting, the FCV control system has been interlocked with RF klystrons so as to initiate blade closure after dumping the electron beam by turning off the RF power. Performance tests have shown that the system could dump the electron beam within 95 μs and then close the blade within 12.4 ms after being triggered     

Pneumatically-Driven Fast Closing Valve System for Synchrotron Radiation Sources

A fast closing valve (FCV) system has been built to protect the vacuum of the electron storage ring against sudden vacuum failures during synchrotron radiation experiments. An electronic control detects the failure, and closes a 140 × 17 mm aperture within 32 ms with a guillotine blade driven by pneumatic pressure. This pressure is gated by a magnetic valve which is operated by an explosive charge from a capacitor bank. The design of the FCV itself is very simple; it is operated directly by a single pneumatic piston. The FCV system has a long operating lifetime and the blade can be readily rearmed in 0.5 s.     

不锈钢管道内壁镀TiN薄膜技术及其真空性能的研究

介绍了对不锈钢管道大面积内壁用直流溅射方法镀TiN薄膜的技术及工艺,并分析了薄膜的相关参数,测试了镀膜管道的真空性能.结果表明,该方法能够快速、高效地在管道内壁镀上高质量的TiN薄膜,且镀膜后真空室表面的放气率明显低于原不锈钢材料的放气率.     

Analysis of annealing and ion implantation effects in Ti/TiN contacts on silicon

The effects of thermal annealing and 350 keV As⁺ ion implantation on interdiffusion processes in a c-Si/Ti/TiN system were analysed. The Ti/TiN contacts were deposited by sputtering (Ti, 100 nm) and by reactive sputtering (TiN, 50 nm) on (111) n-Si wafers. Characterization included RBS, SEM and XRD analysis and electrical measurements. During vacuum annealing, interdiffusion is observed at the Si/Ti interface, where intermixing and growth of silicides takes place at 600° C and at higher temperatures. Annealing in a nitrogen atmosphere induces changes in surface morphology and stoichiometry of TiN, which does not affect the reaction at Si/Ti. Implantation of As⁺ to doses above 3.9 × 10¹⁴ ions/cm² enhances intermixing at the Si/Ti interface during post-implantation annealing, while the TiN overlayer is unaffected in structure and morphology.     

谐波螺旋传动式核动力装置用截止阀的设计

谐波螺旋式阀门采用双波谐波螺旋传动,实现由圆周运动向直线运动的转化,实现阀门的启闭。阀体与连接法兰的密封为体盖密封。在该截止阀的设计中,采用了阀杆导向装置,达到导向的目的。截止阀的柔性元件的径向变形值可以调节,保证柔性螺纹套的环槽与螺杆上的螺纹的接合深度。柔性螺纹套和带有螺杆的阀杆均置于柔性密闭壳体中。柔性轴承由薄壁的外座圈和内座圈组成,内外座圈的端面有环状轨道,其中置有用保持架隔开的滚动体,另外在螺杆与阀杆相互位置的固定设计时,采用了销联接。     

陶瓷真空室研制及其阻抗的研究

介绍了电子储存环注入凸轨击磁铁及春真空室常采用的几种技术方案。合肥电子储存环新凸轨注入系统选择了铁氧体磁铁内置陶瓷真空室的方式。为了同时满足脉冲磁场穿透性能及束流耦合阻抗的要求,陶瓷真空室的内壁须镀１层金属薄膜。     

GIC4117串列加速器外束PIXE/PIGE分析系统

本文介绍在北京师范大学GIC4117串列加速器上建立的外束PIXE/PIGE分析系统,和基于此系统的薄样品外束PIXE/PIGE定量分析方法。给出了2010年Teflon滤膜采集的361个气溶胶样品外束PIXE分析得到的各元素平均探测限和最低探测限,并同真空PIXE分析探测限进行了比较。利用标准样品给出了激发曲线不同坪区薄样品外束PIGE分析F和Na的探测限,通过测定¹⁹F(p, p′γ)¹⁹F激发的197 keV γ射线得到的F的探测限可达73.9 ng•cm^-2,Na的探测限可达198.9 ng•cm^-2。     

Development of Thin-wall Vacuum Chamber for Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator

Heavy Ion Medical Machine (HIMM), developed by the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is the first medical heavy ion accelerator with independent intellectual property rights in China. Because the RAMPING mode was used for high frequency pulse dipole magnets of HIMM and the rising rate of magnetic field is 1.6 T/s, the vacuum chamber installed in the high frequency pulsed magnet is a thin-wall stainless vacuum chamber with reinforcing ribs to reduce the influence of eddy current on the ion beam stability. However, the gap size of magnet occupied by thin-wall stainless vacuum chamber with reinforcing ribs is too large, and it not only causes the high cost of magnets, but also greatly improves the maintenance cost. Based on these reasons, a new thin-wall vacuum chamber (0.3 mm) with ceramic lining was put forward and the prototype was designed and manufactured. The test results show that the obtained pressure of the prototype is in the order magnitude of 10^-10 Pa, and the magnet gap can be effectively reduced. And it is the development direction of thin-wall vacuum chamber of accelerator in the future.     

医用重离子加速器薄壁真空室研制

中国科学院近代物理研究所研制的医用重离子加速器装置是我国第1台拥有自主知识产权的医用重离子加速器,其高频脉冲二极磁铁使用RAMPING工作模式且磁场上升速率为1.6 T/s,所以安装在高频脉冲磁铁内的真空室采用一种薄壁加筋结构不锈钢真空室以减少涡流对离子束稳定性的影响。然而由于薄壁加筋不锈钢真空室占用磁铁气隙尺寸偏大,不仅造成了磁铁造价成本偏高,更是提高了运维成本。基于以上原因,本文提出陶瓷内衬薄壁（0.3 mm）真空室,并研制了原理样机。测试结果表明：样机真空度进入了10^-10 Pa量级范围,并可有效减小磁铁气隙,是未来加速器薄壁真空室的发展方向。     

100 MeV强流质子回旋加速器超高真空系统研制

中国原子能科学研究院建成了一台强流质子回旋加速器,其引出能量为100 MeV,流强为200 μA。为减小粒子加速时束流损失的目的,其粒子加速腔内工作真空度要求为6.7×10^-6 Pa。由于是紧凑型加速器结构,该加速器能提供给真空系统利用的通路有限,为此主真空系统设计为内置式低温冷板结合商业低温泵的排气方案以增加系统整体的抽气能力。设计、加工完成的真空系统已成功应用于100 MeV强流质子回旋加速器上,为加速器的束流调试和正常供束提供了有利的保障。     

The external beam microprobe facility in Florence: Set-up and performance

An external beam microprobe facility, based on a quadrupole doublet supplied by Oxford Microbeam Ltd, has been installed on a new beamline at the 3 MV single-ended Van de Graaff accelerator in Florence. The goal was to obtain a beam with a spot size on target of 10–20 μm and a current in the order of at least 1 nA, in order to allow PIXE, PIGE and RBS elemental analysis in air or in a helium atmosphere. The beam was extracted from the vacuum lines through a 0.1 μm thick Si₃N₄ window to minimise lateral straggling. The design goals have been successfully achieved; the measurements of the beam spot characteristics in vacuum as well as in air and in helium atmosphere, are here reported.     

The performance of the Ljubljana ion microprobe

In August 2000 the setup of the Ljubljana ion microprobe, based on OM 150 triplet, has been completed. The beam line is installed at the 10° exit port of the 2 MeV Tandetron accelerator. It is equipped with motor driven slits, a precise five-axis goniometer and a spherically shaped measuring chamber with detectors for PIXE, PIGE, PESA, SE and RBS. In order to understand the beam optics along the complete system, consisting of the tandem accelerator and the beam line optical elements, an interactive computer code, based on a linear approximation, has been developed. The program is used both to determine the optimal parameters of the tandem focusing system in its daily use and to develop new beam line configurations. Test measurements performed on a copper grid yielded a spatial resolution of 1.0×1.5 μm² in the high current mode (30–100 pA) and 0.5×0.9 μm² in low current mode (10⁴ counts/s). First analytical results confirmed excellent performance of the new Ljubljana ion microprobe.     

Increase of Diagnostic Mirror Lifetime Using TiN Coated Stainless Steel by Using a Plasma Focus Device

Plasma-surface interaction experiments on TiN coated stainless steel 316L (S.S.316L) using a plasma focus (PF) device have been performed in an attempt to investigate whether we can use the hardness property of TiN against erosion to increase the lifetime of the mirrors used in plasma diagnostics equipment. Firstly, two similar S.S.316L samples were chosen for this purpose. One of the samples was coated with TiN by using a PF device, while the other was kept intact as a reference for investigating the effect of TiN coating. Then, in order to study the coating effects, these samples were exposed to 200 shots of hydrogen plasma with a total duration of 7 s in a tokamak. Before and after exposure, samples were analyzed by using atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and a spectrophotometer. It was found that the uncoated sample was severely damaged, its reflection dropped significantly, and it developed some cracks and lines, while no significant change was observed on the surface characteristic of the coated sample. Moreover the weight loss of the uncoated sample was higher in comparison to the coated one. Therefore the results of this experiment showed that the coating of S.S.316L by TiN using a PF device is a useful method to strengthen it against plasma erosion and with further optimization it could possibly be used in preparing plasma diagnostics mirrors.     

Ion beam modification of metals

Energetic ions beams may be used in various ways to modify and so improve the tribological properties of metals. These methods include: — ion implantation of selected additive species; — ion beam mixing of thin deposited coatings; — ion-beam-assisted deposition of thicker overlay coatings.

The first of these techniques has been widely used to modify the electronic properties of semiconductors, but has since been extended for the treatment of all classes of material. Tool steels can be strengthened by the ion implantation of nitrogen or titanium, to produce fine dispersions of hard second-phase precipitates. Solid solution strengthening, by combinations of substitutional and interstitial species, such as yttrium and nitrogen, has also been successful. Both ion beam mixing (IBM) and ion-beam-assisted deposition (IBAD) use a combination of coating and ion bombardment. In the first case, the objective is to intermix the coating and substrate by the aid of radiation-enhanced diffusion. In the latter case, the coating is densified and modified during deposition and the process can be continued in order to build up overlay coatings several μm in thickness. The surface can then be tailored, for instance to provide a hard and adherent ceramic such as silicon nitride, boron nitride or titanium nitride. It is an advantage that all the above processes can be applied at relatively low temperatures, below about 200° C, thereby avoiding distortion of precision components. Ion implantation is also being successfully applied for the reduction of corrosion, especially at high temperatures or in the atmosphere and to explore the mechanisms of oxidation. Ion-assisted coatings, being compact and adherent, provide a more substantial protection against corrosion: silicon nitride and boron nitride are potentially useful in this respect. Examples will be given of the successful application of these methods for the surface modification of metals and alloys, and developments in the equipment now available for industrial application of ion beams will also be reviewed.     

热压烧结UN陶瓷芯块的性能

UN燃料具有铀密度高、熔点高、热导率高、热膨胀系数低、辐照稳定性好等优点,是未来空间核电源、核火箭、快堆和ADS的重要候选燃料。本文采用金属铀粉与氮气在300～400℃直接发生化合反应,制得单相U₂N₃粉末。粒度为38.3 μm的U₂N₃粉末在1 600 ℃真空热压烧结,制得相对密度为93.5%、存在少量金属铀相的UN陶瓷;而18.1 μm的U₂N₃粉末在1 550 ℃真空热压烧结,制得相对密度为96.1%、不残留金属铀相的UN陶瓷,U与N的总质量分数为99.57%,每个金属杂质含量均低于50 μg/g,氧含量为1 048 μg/g,碳含量为502 μg/g。U₂N₃在1 027 ℃以上将会完全分解成UN,UN在1 627 ℃以上也会发生分解。     

Design of a magnetic spectrograph for surface, interface and thin-layer analysis

The design of a magnetic spectrograph of the QDQ type, to be coupled to a 6 MV Van de Graaff accelerator for the analysis with Rutherford backscattering and recoil spectroscopy of surfaces and thin layers, will be shown. Due to the high energy resolution of. the instrument (ΔE/E ≈ 2 × 10⁻⁴) the depth resolution is determined mainly by energy straggling and the combined effect of angular and lateral straggling, and is close to l monolayer near the surface. The mass discrimination of the spectrograph in combination with the energy dispersion of the detector in the focal plane makes possible the background-free detection of light (¹H−¹⁹F) atoms recoiling from a heavier substrate. The design of the total setup is such that channeling and channeling plus blocking experiments can be carried out, so that the position of light (or heavy) atoms on or in monocrystalline samples can be measured. The detector in the focal plane is position-sensitive in two dimensions so that with one setting of the spectrograph an energy range of 2% and an angular distribution of 5° (with a resolution of 0.1°) can be measured simultaneously. The opening angle in the energy-dispersive direction is 0.1°. The whole spectrograph, including the scattering chamber, can be rotated over 120° with respect to the beam line. For this purpose a bellows construction is made between the beam line and the scattering chamber, permitting the rotation while maintaining a vacuum of ≈ 10⁻¹⁰ Torr in the chamber.     

Parametric study of sulfuric acid decomposer for hydrogen production

It is proposed to use a ceramic high-temperature heat exchanger as a sulfuric acid decomposer for hydrogen production within the sulfur–iodine thermo-chemical cycle portion of the hydrogen production process. In this cycle, hot helium from a nuclear reactor is used to heat the SI (sulfuric acid) feed components (H₂O, H₂SO₄, SO₃) to obtain appropriate conditions for the SI decomposition reaction. The inner walls of the SI decomposition channels of the decomposer are coated by a catalyst to decompose sulfur trioxide into sulfur dioxide and oxygen. The heat exchanger and decomposer are made of silicon carbide (SiC).

A three-dimensional computational model is developed to investigate fluid flow, heat transfer, chemical reaction, and stress analysis within the decomposer. Fluid/thermal/chemical analysis of the decomposer is conducted using FLUENT software. Thermal results of this analysis are exported to ANSYS software to perform a probabilistic failure analysis. Effects of using various channel geometries of the decomposer are investigated.     

Ion beam induced nucleation in amorphous GaAs layers during MeV implantation

To investigate the nonlinear dose dependence of the thickness of the recrystallized layer during ion beam induced epitaxial recrystallization at amorphous/crystalline interfaces GaAs samples were irradiated with 1.0 MeV Ar⁺, 1.6 MeV Ar⁺ or 2.5 MeV Kr⁺ ions using a dose rate of 1.4 × 10¹² cm⁻² s⁻¹ at temperatures between 50°C and 180°C. It has been found that the thickness of the recrystallized layer reaches a maximum value at T_max = 90°C and 135°C for the Ar⁺ and Kr⁺ implantations, respectively. This means that the crystallization rate deviates from an Arrhenius dependence due to ion beam induced nucleation and growth within the remaining amorphous layer. The size of the crystallites depends on the implantation dose. This nucleation and growth of the crystallites disturbes and at least blocks the interface movement because the remaining surface layer becomes polycrystalline. Choosing temperatures sufficiently below T_max the thickness of the recrystallized layer increases linearly with the implantation dose indicating that the irradiation temperature is too low for ion induced nucleation.     

离子束辅助沉积制备TiN/Si3N4纳米超硬膜的工艺研究

采用离子束辅助沉积法(Ion beam assisted deposition,IBAD)在单晶硅片上进行沉积制备了TiN/Si3N4纳米复合超硬薄膜;研究了辅助束流、轰击能量和Ti:Si靶面积比等工艺参数对TiN/Si3N4超硬纳米复合薄膜性能的影响.此外采用纳米硬度计、光电子能谱(X-ray photoelectron spectrum,XPS)和x射线衍射分析(X-raydiffraction,XRD)方法研究了纳米复合薄膜的性能、成分与组织结构;采用原子力显微镜(Atomic forcemicroscopy,AFM)分析了薄膜的表面形貌,并初步探讨了TiN/Si3N4纳米复合超硬薄膜的生长机理.     

Patterned metallic coating of a ceramic chamber in storage ringbump magnets

To permit the pulsed field of a bump magnet to penetrate the vacuum chamber of a particle storage ring, a section of ceramic chamber is used. A thin metal coating on the inner surface is usually employed to prevent the static charge build-up on the surface of the ceramic chamber, as well as to reduce the coupling impedance. The metal coating, however, can lead to heating of the chamber walls due to eddy current. To avoid such an unwanted effect, a patterned coating is employed. In this paper, we discuss the electrical power and the field distortion due to the eddy current and the effect of various patterned metallic coatings on the motion of a circulating beam. The results are applied to the storage ring of the Pohang Light Source