Publications related to Vacuum engineering

Technology challenges and integration of the plasma position reflectometer in RFX-mod2

The integration of the new plasma position reflectometer in the RFX-mod2 experiment (the upgraded version of the previous RFX-mod that operated until 2015) is presented in this contribution. Particular attention has been devoted to the high field side subs ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Controlling crystal cleavage in focused ion beam shaped specimens for surface spectroscopy

Philip Johannes Walter Moll, Matthias Carsten Putzke, Andrew Scott Hunter

Our understanding of quantum materials is commonly based on precise determinations of their electronic spectrum by spectroscopic means, most notably angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and scanning tunneling microscopy. Both require atomicall ...

Aip Publishing2024

Suspended micro/nano channel resonators: a review

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Annalisa De Pastina

Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (M/NEMS) have demonstrated outstanding sensing capabilities down to the yoctogram (10(-24) g) scale in vacuum environment and cryogenic temperatures. In order to bring such extraordinary resolution levels into the ...

2020

Beam induced vacuum effects in the future circular hadron collider beam vacuum chamber

Lotta Maria Mether

EuroCirCol is a conceptual design study of a post-LHC, Future Circular Hadron Collider (FCC-hh) with 50 TeV of beam energy and 100 km long, which aims to expand the current energy and luminosity frontiers. The vacuum chamber of the FCC-hh will have to cope ...

2020

Electron flux and pressure dynamic in the LHC vacuum pilot sector as a function of beam parameters and beam pipe properties

Ambrogio Fasoli, Elena Buratin, Vincent Baglin

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is affected by the electron cloud (EC) phenomenon that can provoke beam instabilities, detrimental heat loads and pressure increases in the vacuum system. An innovative dedicated system called vacuum pilot sector (VPS) provi ...

2020

Design of the future circular hadron collider beam vacuum chamber

Lotta Maria Mether

EuroCirCol is a conceptual design study of a post-LHC, Future Circular Hadron Collider (FCC-hh) which aims to expand the current energy and luminosity frontiers. The vacuum chamber of this 100 TeV, 100 km collider, will have to cope with unprecedented leve ...

2020

Vortex siphon - from 1:1 scale physical model to SPH simulation and prototype

Giovanni De Cesare

The rail link between Geneva Cornavin Station, Eaux-Vives Station and Annemasse (CEVA) is currently under construction including a cut-and-cover tunnel built by slurry walls located in the alluvium of the Foron River. The covered trench cuts the groundwate ...

2019

Monte Carlo simulations of ultra high vacuum and synchrotron radiation for particle accelerators

Márton Ady

With preparation of Hi-Lumi LHC fully underway, and the FCC machines under study, accelerators will reach unprecedented energies and along with it very large amount of synchrotron radiation (SR). This will desorb photoelectrons and molecules from accelerat ...

EPFL2016

A combined radial collimator and cooled beryllium filter for neutron scattering

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Felix Groitl

A flexible, combined, radial collimator and beryllium (Be) filter have been designed and manufactured at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Switzerland. The Be is integrated in the radial collimator by placing thin Be slices between the collimator lamellas. ...

Elsevier2016

Synthesis, Properties, and Two-Dimensional Adsorption Characteristics of 5-Amino[6]hexahelicene

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder

A convergent synthesis of racemic 5-amino[6]hexahelicene is described. Cross-coupling reactions are used to assemble a pentacyclic framework, and a metal-catalyzed ring-closure comprises the final step. The enantiomers were separated by means of chromatogr ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Soft-landing electrospray ion beam deposition of sensitive oligoynes on surfaces in vacuum

Klaus Kern, Holger Frauenrath, Stephen Schrettl, Tobias Hoheisel, Stephan Rauschenbach, Gordon Rinke

Characterizing the complex structure of such molecules with highly resolving, vacuum-based methods like scanning probe microscopy requires their transfer into the gas phase and further onto an atomically clean surface in ultrahigh vacuum without causing ad ...

Elsevier2015

A hydrodynamically optimized nano-electrospray ionization source and vacuum interface

Klaus Kern, Mark Pauly, Stephan Rauschenbach, Gordon Rinke

The coupling of atmospheric pressure ionization (API) sources like electrospray ionization (ESI) to vacuum based applications like mass spectrometry (MS) or ion beam deposition (IBD) is done by differential pumping, starting with a capillary or pinhole inl ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

ITER ECH&CD Upper Launcher: Design options and Remote Handling issues of the waveguide assembly

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan

The ITER Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive Upper Launcher, developed by the ECHUL-CA Consortium of Euratom Associations (CRPP, CNR, ITER-NL, IPF, IPP, KIT and Politecnico di Milano), is presently in its final design phase. The study presented he ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

Reaction-Induced Cluster Ripening and Initial Size-Dependent Reaction Rates for CO Oxidation on Pt-n/TiO2(110)-(1x1)

Harald Brune, Wolfgang Harbich, Simon Bonanni

We determined the CO oxidation rates for size-selected Pt-n (n is an element of {3,7,10}) clusters deposited onto TiO2(110). In addition, we investigated the cluster morphologies and their mean sizes before and after the reaction. While the clusters are fa ...

American Chemical Society2014

A 10 mK scanning tunneling microscope operating in ultra high vacuum and high magnetic fields

Klaus Kern, Markus Etzkorn, Maximilian Assig

We present design and performance of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) that operates at temperatures down to 10 mK providing ultimate energy resolution on the atomic scale. The STM is attached to a dilution refrigerator with direct access to an ultra h ...

Amer Inst Physics2013

Nuclear technology aspects of ITER vessel-mounted diagnostics

Duccio Testa, Matthieu Toussaint

ITER has diagnostics with machine protection, basic and advanced control, and physics roles. Several are distributed on the inner and outer periphery of the vacuum vessel. They have reduced maintainability compared to diagnostics in ports. They also endure ...

Elsevier2011

Self-Assembly of Nanoporous Chiral Networks with Varying Symmetry from Sexiphenyl-dicarbonitrile on Ag(111)

Harald Brune, Uta Schlickum, Régis Decker

The self-assembly of sexiphenyl-dicarbonitrile molecules on the Ag(111) surface is investigated using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) in ultrahigh vacuum. Several nanoporous networks with varying symmetry and pore size coexist on the su ...

American Chemical Society2009

Electrospray ion beam deposition and mass spectrometry of nonvolatile molecules and nanomaterials

Stephan Rauschenbach

The vacuum deposition of complex functional molecules and nanoparticles by thermal sublimation is often hindered due to their extremely low vapor pressure. This especially impedes the application of ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) based analytical and surface modif ...

EPFL2008

Dynamic stencil lithography on full wafer scale

Jürgen Brugger, Andreea Veronica Savu, Marc Antonius Friedrich van den Boogaart

In this paper, the authors present a breakthrough extension of the stencil lithography tool and method. In the standard stencil lithography static mode, material is deposited through apertures in a membrane (stencil) on a substrate which is clamped to the ...

2008

Cubic and oriented Ag nano-particles by high vacuum evaporation

Libero Zuppiroli, Detlef Berner

Ag cubes of uniform size (70nm) and self-assembled into two dimensional arrays are formed by physical vapor deposition. The formation of the Ag cubes depends critically on the substrate composition. While heat dissipation can control the crystallization of ...

Nano Science and Technology Institute, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States2006