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)
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        : Sessions
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        : Breaks
Mar 19, 2017
Mar 20, 2017
Mar 21, 2017
Mar 22, 2017
Mar 23, 2017
AM
8:30 AM
Saraf Lab tour (until 9:30 PM)
8:30 AM --- bus to soreq from hotel ---
10:00 AM --- entrance + welcome ---
10:45 AM The Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility – SARAF - Dr ido Silverman  
11:05 AM SARAF Phase-I accelerator experience - Dr Leo Weissman  
11:45 AM SARAF Phase-II accelerator - Dr Amichay Perry  
12:15 PM Development of a NC re-buncher - Dr Boaz Kaizer  
12:40 PM SARAF Phase-I experiments - Dr Shlomi Halfon  
1:15 PM --- lunch ---
2:25 PM Lab tour  
5:00 PM --- bus to tel aviv (Sharona Market) + free time + Bus to Hotel ---
8:30 AM
conf activity (until 9:00 AM)
8:30 AM welcome and opening remarks  
9:00 AM
Applications and Background (until 12:30 PM)
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)  
10:30 AM --- break ---
11:00 AM Vacuum arc plasma in devices. Modeling and experiments - Michael Keidar (George washington University)  
11:45 AM Plasma Window for Various Applications - Prof. Ady Hershcovitch (BNL)  
8:30 AM
conf activity (until 9:30 AM)
9:30 AM
conf activity (until 7:30 PM)
8:30 AM
Experiments and Diagnostics (until 12:30 PM)
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  
10:30 AM --- break ---
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 - Dr Fabio Avino (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL, Switzerland)  
8:30 AM
Modeling and simulations (until 12:30 PM)
8:30 AM Review of BD related studies in HIP - Dr 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)  
10:30 AM --- break ---
11:00 AM Breakdown Events and Dark Current: a B.I.R.D. - eye view - Mr 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)  
PM
2:00 PM
Field Emission Theory and Experiments (until 5:00 PM)
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))  
3:30 PM --- break ---
4:00 PM Update on the status of field electron emission theory - Dr Richard Forbes (University of Surrey, UK)  
4:30 PM A generalized method for calculating electron emission and thermal evolution of metal nanotips - Dr Andreas Kyritsakis (University of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute of Physics)  
7:30 PM
posters session (until 10:30 PM)
7:30 PM Spectroscopic Study of Vacuum Breakdown Process Under Impulse Voltage - Mr Zhipeng Zhou (Xi'an Jiaotong University)  
7:31 PM Kinetic model of defects generation in oxide crystals by intense radiation - Dr 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 - Prof. 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 - Dr Richard Forbes (University of Surrey, UK)  
7:37 PM Note on using the principal Schottky-Nordheim barrier function v(x) - Dr Richard Forbes (University of Surrey, UK)  
7:38 PM Testing Fowler-Nordheim-type equations - Dr 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))  
2:00 PM
Experiments and Diagnostics (until 3:00 PM)
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 - Dr Inna Popov (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Mrs Ayelet Yashar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)  
3:00 PM
Applications and Background (until 6:00 PM)
3:00 PM Miniature Vacuum Arc Thruster with Controlled Cathode Feeding - Prof. Igal Kronhaus (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)  
3:30 PM --- break ---
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 - Ms Morgan Monroe (Modern Electron)  
5:00 PM EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MULTIPACTOR SUPPRESSION IN DIELECTRIC MATERIALS - Dr Mohamed El khaldi (LAL/IN2P3/CNRS)  
7:00 PM
conf activity (until 10:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Modeling and simulations (until 5:10 PM)
2:00 PM Model for Triggered Vacuum Switches - Chris Moore (Sandia National Labs) Dr Andrew Fierro (Sandia National Labs) Dr Stan Moore (Sandia National Labs) Matthew Hopkins (Sandia National Laboratories)  
2:30 PM Classical array models and the location of the field emission tunnelling barrier - Dr Richard Forbes (University of Surrey, UK)  
3:00 PM --- break ---
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 - Dr Antonio De Lorenzi  
4:50 PM --- goodbyes ---