Scientific Solutions is pleased to announce that the US Department of Energy has funded of our Phase I SBIR project to design an on-axis, rf coupler for superconducting rf cavities. This concept represents a new approach to coupling rf power into superconducting accelerator cavities. On-axis coupling preserves the cylindrical symmetry of the beamline and accelerator cavities while simultaneously enabling a large in situ variation of the coupling factor. The geometry of the on-axis coupler is better suited to the cryogenic container and maintains isolation of the beamline vacuum from the rf vacuum, thereby preventing contamination of the accelerator cavities.

Scientific Solutions is pleased to announce that the US Department of Energy has approved Phase II of our SBIR project to develop a miniature electron-cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source.   Two prototype sources were fabricated under the Phase I grant and their performance with light and heavy ions will be qualified in Phase II.  The miniature ECR (miniECR) source is designed for those applications where a small, robust, and relatively maintenance-free ion source provides a significant advantage over existing sources of 1⁺ ions