TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of a versatile, high-temperature, high-throughput ion irradiation system
AU - Moorehead, Michael
AU - Queylat, Benoit
AU - Zhang, Hongliang
AU - Kriewaldt, Kim
AU - Couet, Adrien
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is being performed using funding received from the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy's Nuclear Energy University Program, United States (DE-NE0009001). This research was funded in part by a fellowship program sponsored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), United States and was made possible with support from an NEUP Infrastructure, United States grant and from continued support from the Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) program. Additionally, the authors would like to thank UW-Madison IBL and TEAM Lab machine shop staff for their efforts in iteratively modifying the vacuum chamber and beamline housing the high-throughput irradiation system.
Funding Information:
This research is being performed using funding received from the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program, United States ( DE-NE0009001 ). This research was funded in part by a fellowship program sponsored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), United States and was made possible with support from an NEUP Infrastructure, United States grant and from continued support from the Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) program. Additionally, the authors would like to thank UW-Madison IBL and TEAM Lab machine shop staff for their efforts in iteratively modifying the vacuum chamber and beamline housing the high-throughput irradiation system.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/12/21
Y1 - 2021/12/21
N2 - Ion irradiation has long been used as a surrogate for neutron irradiation experiments which are comparatively slower, more expensive, and often can leave materials activated and difficult to handle post-irradiation. However, with the growing use of combinatorial synthesis methods and high-throughput, automated characterization techniques, ion irradiation facilities will need to upgrade their capabilities to be able to accommodate these new material platforms. To address this challenge, a high-throughput ion irradiation system has been developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Ion Beam Laboratory (IBL). The system is capable of accommodating large sample arrays of arbitrary geometries and heat samples individually using an infrared laser to enable high-temperature, high-throughput ion irradiation while mitigating the risk of annealing the irradiation damage in nearby samples. To control stage motion, laser power, and beam current measurement, among other tasks, the program Chronos was developed which enables automated high-throughput irradiation experiments.
AB - Ion irradiation has long been used as a surrogate for neutron irradiation experiments which are comparatively slower, more expensive, and often can leave materials activated and difficult to handle post-irradiation. However, with the growing use of combinatorial synthesis methods and high-throughput, automated characterization techniques, ion irradiation facilities will need to upgrade their capabilities to be able to accommodate these new material platforms. To address this challenge, a high-throughput ion irradiation system has been developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Ion Beam Laboratory (IBL). The system is capable of accommodating large sample arrays of arbitrary geometries and heat samples individually using an infrared laser to enable high-temperature, high-throughput ion irradiation while mitigating the risk of annealing the irradiation damage in nearby samples. To control stage motion, laser power, and beam current measurement, among other tasks, the program Chronos was developed which enables automated high-throughput irradiation experiments.
KW - Automation
KW - High temperature
KW - High throughput
KW - Ion irradiation
KW - Laser heating
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2021.165892
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2021.165892
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85117603195
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 1020
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
M1 - 165892
ER -