Name: 6th International Workshop on Mechanisms of Vacuum Arcs (MeVArc 2017)
Start: 2017-03-19T01:30:00+02:00
End: 2017-03-23T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Other Institutes

6th International Workshop on Mechanisms of Vacuum Arcs (MeVArc 2017)

from Sunday, March 19, 2017 (1:30 AM) to Thursday, March 23, 2017 (9:00 PM)

Monday, March 13, 2017
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Friday, March 17, 2017
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Sunday, March 19, 2017
8:30 AM Saraf Visit
Saraf Visit
8:30 AM - 9:30 PM
Contributions

10:45 AM The Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility – SARAF - ido Silverman

11:05 AM SARAF Phase-I accelerator experience - Leo Weissman

11:45 AM SARAF Phase-II accelerator - Amichay Perry

12:15 PM Development of a NC re-buncher - Boaz Kaizer

12:40 PM SARAF Phase-I experiments - Shlomi Halfon

2:25 PM Lab tour

Monday, March 20, 2017
8:30 AM welcome and opening remarks
welcome and opening remarks
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM welcome and opening remarks
9:00 AM Applications I
Applications I
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM CLIC High-Gradient Accelerator Studies - Walter Wuensch (CERN)

9:45 AM Manipulating Relativistic Electrons with Intense Laser Pulses - Victor Malka (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

11:00 AM Vacuum arc plasma in devices. Modeling and experiments - Michael Keidar (George washington University)

11:45 AM Plasma Window for Various Applications - Ady Hershcovitch (BNL)
2:00 PM field emission 1
field emission 1
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Vacuum Field Emission Models, Measurements, and Simulations - Matthew Hopkins (Sandia National Laboratories)

2:30 PM News from DC-pulsed system at CERN - Iaroslava Profatilova (Nat. Acad. Sci., Inst. Appl. Phys. (UA))

3:00 PM Dark and Breakdown Currents Studies with RF and In-SEM Field Emission Studies. - Marek Jacewicz (Uppsala University (SE))

4:00 PM Update on the status of field electron emission theory - Richard Forbes (University of Surrey, UK)

4:30 PM A generalized method for calculating electron emission and thermal evolution of metal nanotips - Andreas Kyritsakis (University of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute of Physics)
7:30 PM
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Contributions

7:30 PM Spectroscopic Study of Vacuum Breakdown Process Under Impulse Voltage - Zhipeng Zhou (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

7:31 PM Kinetic model of defects generation in oxide crystals by intense radiation - SUSUMU KATO (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST))

7:32 PM Simulations of gold surfaces under high electric fields - Simon Vigonski (University of Tartu)

7:33 PM Metal Vacuum Arc Variants for High Charge State Ion Generation - Ady Hershcovitch (BNL)

7:34 PM Dislocation interactions in subsurface copper inducing electric breakdowns

7:35 PM Anode Temperature Measurement in a Vacuum Arc with a Black Body Electrode Assembly - Itzhak Beilis (Electrical Discharge and Plasma Laboratory, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University)

7:36 PM A theoretical link between voltage loss, field-enhancement-factor reduction, and Fowler-Nordheim-plot saturation - Richard Forbes (University of Surrey, UK)

7:37 PM Note on using the principal Schottky-Nordheim barrier function v(x) - Richard Forbes (University of Surrey, UK)

7:38 PM Testing Fowler-Nordheim-type equations - Richard Forbes (University of Surrey, UK)

7:39 PM Dark current fluctuations in pre-breakdown conditions

7:40 PM Crater evolution and droplet generation in vacuum arcs during the cathode spot development

8:00 PM Pulsed DC System Facilities - Iaroslava Profatilova (Nat. Acad. Sci., Inst. Appl. Phys. (UA))
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

8:30 AM visit to HUJI Nano-center
visit to HUJI Nano-center
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

9:30 AM

9:30 AM - 7:30 PM
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
8:30 AM Experiments and Diagnostics (1)
Experiments and Diagnostics (1)
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

8:30 AM STUDIES OF HIGH-POWER MICROWAVE STRUCTURES THAT EMPLOY BIMODAL CAVITIES - Jay L Hirshfield (Yale University & Omega-P, Inc.)

9:15 AM RF breakdown study on choke-mode damped accelerating structures - Jiaru Shi (Tsinghua University)

10:00 AM Arcing on fuzzy nanostructures - Shin Kajita

11:00 AM Influence of Cathode Melted Layer on Vacuum Insulation - Zhiyuan Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

11:30 AM The spatial evolution of species during vacuum breakdown - Zhenxing Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

12:00 PM Gas breakdown investigation and mitigation in complex geometries - Fabio Avino (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL, Switzerland)
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Dislocation patterns in Cu-OFE by EBSD and Breakdown activity - Enrique Rodriguez Castro (University of Vigo (ES))

2:30 PM Observations of pre- and post-breakdown structures on OFHC Cu surfaces - Ayelet Yashar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Inna Popov (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Miniature Vacuum Arc Thruster with Controlled Cathode Feeding - Igal Kronhaus (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

4:00 PM Study of vacuum RF breakdown in strong magnetic fields - Alexey Kochemirovskiy (The University of Chicago)

4:30 PM Dielectric Surface Breakdown in Sub-100 nm Metal-Insulator-Metal Fins with Exposed SiOx and Si3N4 Sidewalls - Morgan Monroe (Modern Electron)

5:00 PM EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MULTIPACTOR SUPPRESSION IN DIELECTRIC MATERIALS - Mohamed El khaldi (LAL/IN2P3/CNRS)
7:00 PM joint dinner - "The Eucalyptus" restaurant
joint dinner - "The Eucalyptus" restaurant
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, March 23, 2017
8:30 AM Modelling and Simulations (1)
Modelling and Simulations (1)
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

8:30 AM Review of BD related studies in HIP - Flyura Djurabekova (University of Helsinki)

9:00 AM Growth mechanism of a nano-protrusion on tungsten tip under electric field - Ekaterina Baibuz

9:30 AM Surface evolution in high electric fields - Ville Jansson (University of Helsinki)

10:00 AM Atomistic modeling of metal surfaces under high electric fields: direct coupling of electric fields to the atomistic simulations - Mihkel Veske (University of Helsinki)

11:00 AM Breakdown Events and Dark Current: a B.I.R.D. - eye view - emanuele spada (RFX - Padova)

11:30 AM BD nucleation as a critical transition in dislocation population - Yinon Ashkenazy (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL))

12:00 PM Stochastic Model of Breakdown Nucleation under Intense Electric Fields - Eli Engelberg (HUJI)
2:00 PM modelling (3)
modelling (3)
2:00 PM - 5:10 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Model for Triggered Vacuum Switches - Chris Moore (Sandia National Labs) Matthew Hopkins (Sandia National Laboratories) Andrew Fierro (Sandia National Labs) Stan Moore (Sandia National Labs)

2:30 PM Classical array models and the location of the field emission tunnelling barrier - Richard Forbes (University of Surrey, UK)

3:20 PM Influence of nanoscale surface modifications to the estimated field enhancement and emission currents - Vahur Zadin (University of Tartu)

3:50 PM Modeling RF Breakdown - Jim Norem (Argonne National Lab)

4:20 PM Application of the Voltage Holding Predictive Model - Antonio De Lorenzi

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