Facilities and Instruments at the Accelerator Laboratory
The Accelerator Laboratory serve industry with our state-of-the-art equipped laboratories, where our well-trained personnel use strong scientific knowledge. Wide range of services are offered, from contract-based research with companies to scientific collaboration, where our well-trained experts do the fabrication work.
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Ion beam analysis facilities is located in the Accelerator Laboratory and operated by Accelerator based materials research group. The ion beam analysis research offers high quality capabilities in materials analysis and fabrication. An essential part of the work of the group is also to train students on applications of accelerators in materials science and technology. The group uses MeV ion beams from Pelletron to probe the elemental compositional and structural properties of materials, keV beams from helium ion microscope (HIM) and does atomic layer deposition (ALD) with state-of-the-art equipment.
RADEF, RADiation Effects Facility, is specialized in applied research related to nuclear and accelerator Âbased technologies, to study of radiation effects in electronics and related materials. RADEF officially became an ESA supported European Component Irradiation Facility (ECIF) in 2005. Since then irradiation tests have been carried out not only for ESA and the EuroÂpean space industry, but also for other world leading space organizations, companies and universities (e.g. NASA, JAXA, CNES). The contract with ESA was again extended in 2023 and will continue till the end of 2027. RADEF offers wide variety of different sorts of radiations from gammas and electrons to protons and heavy ions for research. For these beams the RADEF group utilizes the LINAC electron accelerator, and combination of JYFL's ECR ion sources and K-130 cyclotron.
Accelerators: The JYFL accelerator laboratory hosts three large-scale accelerators: The K130 cyclotron, MCC30/15 cyclotron and the 1.7 MV Pelletron. The main workhorse of the laboratory, the K130 is an isochronous cyclotron equipped with three external electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion sources and a multicusp light-ion source, which can deliver an exceptionally large variety of heavy- and light-ion beams up to the energy of 130 Q2/A MeV for use in research and applications. The MCC30/15 is a small cyclotron for production of 18-30 MeV protons and 9-15 MeV deuterons with a dedicated filament-driven multicusp negative ion source. The Pelletron accelerator is a dedicated facility for accelerator-based material physics.
Ion sources: In the JYFL accelerator laboratory we have four ion sources injecting to the K130 cyclotron. Three of them are based on electron cyclotron resonance: 6.4, 14 and 18 GHz ECR ion sources. The fourth is a filament-driven multi cusp type H- light ion source LIISA. The ECR ion sources are used for production of highly charged ion beams for nuclear and material physics experiments. LIISA is used for producing intensive proton beams for nuclear physics experiments and medical isotope production.
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