CLASSE NEWS | 29 Jul 2011
We are proud to announce that Sam Posen is the winner of the Most Outstanding Student Poster Award at the SRF 2011 conference in Chicago.
His poster presents his work on Nb3Sn as an alternative superconductor for accelerating cavity applications. A defect-free cavity coated by Nb3Sn has the potential to achieve nearly twice the accelerating gradient of a standard niobium cavity and to require significantly lower cryogenic costs to operate. Sam has designed and built an apparatus to fabricate Nb3Sn, and surface analyses he performed on the first samples indicate that he has produced uniform Nb3Sn with the perfect composition for an SRF cavity.
Sam is in his third year of PhD studies in the SRF group. His adviser is Matthias Liepe.
Cornell SRF Graduate Student Receives Poster Award
Cornell Grad Sam Posen.
His poster presents his work on Nb3Sn as an alternative superconductor for accelerating cavity applications. A defect-free cavity coated by Nb3Sn has the potential to achieve nearly twice the accelerating gradient of a standard niobium cavity and to require significantly lower cryogenic costs to operate. Sam has designed and built an apparatus to fabricate Nb3Sn, and surface analyses he performed on the first samples indicate that he has produced uniform Nb3Sn with the perfect composition for an SRF cavity.
Sam is in his third year of PhD studies in the SRF group. His adviser is Matthias Liepe.