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Experimental and Modeling Methods for Development of Diamond Electron Amplifiers

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W911NF-20-P-0003
Agency Tracking Number: A19B-004-0022
Amount: $166,496.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: A19B-T004
Solicitation Number: 19.B
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2019
Award Year: 2020
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2019-12-13
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2020-06-19
Small Business Information
5621 Arapahoe Ave, Suite A
Boulder, CO 80303
United States
DUNS: 806486692
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Dimitre Dimitrov
 Research Scientist
 (303) 443-2657
 dad@txcorp.com
Business Contact
 Laurence Nelson
Phone: (720) 974-1856
Email: lnelson@txcorp.com
Research Institution
 Tech-X Corporation
 Laurence Nelson Laurence Nelson
 
5621 Arapahoe Ave Ste A
Boulder, CO 80303
United States

 (720) 974-1856
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

High-average current and high-brightness electron beams are needed in advance applications such as ultra-high power Free-Electron Lasers (FELs) and electron accelerators. The technologically important material properties of diamond are of significant interest for development of electron emission, detector, and wide-bandgap semiconductor applications, including radiation-hard devices. A diamond amplifier cathode concept has been proposed to generate such high average current electron beams. Experiments have already demonstrated the potential to generate amplified electron beams from diamond with peak current density greater than 400 mA per square mm and average current density larger than 100 mA per square mm. However, the concept is still to be fully developed and tested in accelerator cavities. Moreover, the optimal surface preparation is still to be determined. We propose to address this problem by fabrication of diamond amplifier samples with different surface properties, experimental testing, and high-fidelity modeling to assist the experimental work.

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