TY  - CONF
AU  - Balachandran, S.
AU  - Bieler, T.R.
AU  - Chetri, S.
AU  - Dhakal, P.
AU  - Lee, P.J.
AU  - Thune, Z.L.
AU  - Valente-Feliciano, A-M.
ED  - Saito, Kenji
ED  - Xu, Ting
ED  - Sakamoto, Naruhiko
ED  - Schaa, Volker R.W.
ED  - Thomas, Paul W.
TI  - Microstructure Development in a Cold Worked SRF Niobium Sheet After Heat Treatments
J2  - Proc. of SRF2023, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 25-30 June 2023
CY  - Grand Rapids, MI, USA
T2  - International Conference on RF Superconductivity
T3  - 21
LA  - english
AB  - Bulk Nb for TESLA shaped SRF cavities is a mature technology. Significant advances are in order to push Q₀’s to 10¹0⁻¹¹(T= 2K), and involve modifications to the sub-surface Nb layers by impurity doping. In order to achieve the lowest surface resistance any trapped flux needs to be expelled for cavities to reach high Q₀’s. There is clear evidence that cavities fabricated from polycrystalline sheets meeting current specifications require higher temperatures beyond 800 °C leads to better flux expulsion, and hence improves Q₀. Recently, cavities fabricated with a non-traditional Nb sheet with initial cold work due to cold rolling expelled flux better after 800 °C/3h heat treatment than cavities fabricated using fine-grain poly-crystalline Nb sheets. Here, we analyze the microstructure development in Nb from the vendor supplied cold work non- annealed sheet that was fabricated into an SRF cavity as a function of heat treatment building upon the methodology development to analyze microstructure being developed by the FSU-MSU-UT, Austin-JLAB collaboration. The results indicate correlation between full recrystallization and better flux expulsion.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 191
EP  - 196
KW  - cavity
KW  - ECR
KW  - SRF
KW  - niobium
KW  - radio-frequency
DA  - 2023/09
PY  - 2023
SN  - 2673-5504
SN  - 978-3-95450-234-9
DO  - doi:10.18429/JACoW-SRF2023-MOPMB041
UR  - https://jacow.org/srf2023/papers/mopmb041.pdf
ER  - 

TY  - CONF
AU  - Thune, Z.L.
AU  - Bieler, T.R.
ED  - Saito, Kenji
ED  - Xu, Ting
ED  - Sakamoto, Naruhiko
ED  - Schaa, Volker R.W.
ED  - Thomas, Paul W.
TI  - The Influence of Sample Preparation, Soak Time, and Heating Rate on Measured Recrystallization of Deformed Polycrystalline Niobium
J2  - Proc. of SRF2023, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 25-30 June 2023
CY  - Grand Rapids, MI, USA
T2  - International Conference on RF Superconductivity
T3  - 21
LA  - english
AB  - Improving accelerator performance relies on consistent production of high-purity niobium superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) cavities. Current production uses an 800 °C 3 hr heat treatment, but 900-1000 °C can improve cavity performance via recrystallization (Rx) and grain growth. As Rx is thermally activated, increasing the temperature and/or the heating rate could facilitate a reduction in geometrically necessary dislocation (GND) density that is associated with the degradation of cavity performance via trapped magnetic flux. Recent work shows that increasing the annealing temperature increased the Rx fraction in cold-rolled polycrystalline niobium. However, the influence of heating rate on the extent of Rx was minimal with a 3 hr soak time. To further assess the influence of heating rate on measured Rx, as well as the effects of sample preparation, electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) was used to quantify the extent of Rx on samples annealed at a single temperature with different soak times. Comparing samples with different surface preparation shows that pinned grain boundaries on the free surface reveal a much smaller grain size than below the surface.
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 863
EP  - 867
KW  - cavity
KW  - ECR
KW  - niobium
KW  - SRF
KW  - electron
DA  - 2023/09
PY  - 2023
SN  - 2673-5504
SN  - 978-3-95450-234-9
DO  - doi:10.18429/JACoW-SRF2023-WEPWB116
UR  - https://jacow.org/srf2023/papers/wepwb116.pdf
ER  -