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

from Sunday, 19 March 2017 (01:30) to Thursday, 23 March 2017 (21:00)
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        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
19 Mar 2017
20 Mar 2017
21 Mar 2017
22 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017
AM
08:30
Saraf Lab tour (until 21:30) ()
08:30 --- bus to soreq from hotel ---
10:00 --- entrance + welcome ---
10:45 The Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility – SARAF - Dr ido Silverman   ()
11:05 SARAF Phase-I accelerator experience - Dr Leo Weissman   ()
11:45 SARAF Phase-II accelerator - Dr Amichay Perry   ()
12:15 Development of a NC re-buncher - Dr Boaz Kaizer   ()
12:40 SARAF Phase-I experiments - Dr Shlomi Halfon   ()
13:15 --- lunch ---
14:25 Lab tour   ()
17:00 --- bus to tel aviv (Sharona Market) + free time + Bus to Hotel ---
08:30
conf activity (until 09:00) ()
08:30 welcome and opening remarks   ()
09:00
Applications and Background (until 12:30) ()
09:00 CLIC High-Gradient Accelerator Studies - Walter Wuensch (CERN)   ()
09:45 Manipulating Relativistic Electrons with Intense Laser Pulses - Victor Malka (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)   ()
10:30 --- break ---
11:00 Vacuum arc plasma in devices. Modeling and experiments - Michael Keidar (George washington University)   ()
11:45 Plasma Window for Various Applications - Prof. Ady Hershcovitch (BNL)   ()
08:30
conf activity (until 09:30) ()
09:30
conf activity (until 19:30) ()
08:30
Experiments and Diagnostics (until 12:30) ()
08:30 STUDIES OF HIGH-POWER MICROWAVE STRUCTURES THAT EMPLOY BIMODAL CAVITIES - Jay L Hirshfield (Yale University & Omega-P, Inc.)   ()
09:15 RF breakdown study on choke-mode damped accelerating structures - Jiaru Shi (Tsinghua University)   ()
10:00 Arcing on fuzzy nanostructures - Shin Kajita   ()
10:30 --- break ---
11:00 Influence of Cathode Melted Layer on Vacuum Insulation - Zhiyuan Liu (Xi'an Jiaotong University)   ()
11:30 The spatial evolution of species during vacuum breakdown - Zhenxing Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)   ()
12:00 Gas breakdown investigation and mitigation in complex geometries - Dr Fabio Avino (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL, Switzerland)   ()
08:30
Modeling and simulations (until 12:30) ()
08:30 Review of BD related studies in HIP - Dr Flyura Djurabekova (University of Helsinki)   ()
09:00 Growth mechanism of a nano-protrusion on tungsten tip under electric field - Ekaterina Baibuz   ()
09:30 Surface evolution in high electric fields - Ville Jansson (University of Helsinki)   ()
10:00 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 --- break ---
11:00 Breakdown Events and Dark Current: a B.I.R.D. - eye view - Mr emanuele spada (RFX - Padova)   ()
11:30 BD nucleation as a critical transition in dislocation population - Yinon Ashkenazy (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL))   ()
12:00 Stochastic Model of Breakdown Nucleation under Intense Electric Fields - Eli Engelberg (HUJI)   ()
PM
14:00
Field Emission Theory and Experiments (until 17:00) ()
14:00 Vacuum Field Emission Models, Measurements, and Simulations - Matthew Hopkins (Sandia National Laboratories)   ()
14:30 News from DC-pulsed system at CERN - Iaroslava Profatilova (Nat. Acad. Sci., Inst. Appl. Phys. (UA))   ()
15:00 Dark and Breakdown Currents Studies with RF and In-SEM Field Emission Studies. - Marek Jacewicz (Uppsala University (SE))   ()
15:30 --- break ---
16:00 Update on the status of field electron emission theory - Dr Richard Forbes (University of Surrey, UK)   ()
16:30 A generalized method for calculating electron emission and thermal evolution of metal nanotips - Dr Andreas Kyritsakis (University of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute of Physics)   ()
19:30
posters session (until 22:30) ()
19:30 Spectroscopic Study of Vacuum Breakdown Process Under Impulse Voltage - Mr Zhipeng Zhou (Xi'an Jiaotong University)   ()
19:31 Kinetic model of defects generation in oxide crystals by intense radiation - Dr SUSUMU KATO (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST))   ()
19:32 Simulations of gold surfaces under high electric fields - Simon Vigonski (University of Tartu)   ()
19:33 Metal Vacuum Arc Variants for High Charge State Ion Generation - Prof. Ady Hershcovitch (BNL)   ()
19:34 Dislocation interactions in subsurface copper inducing electric breakdowns   ()
19:35 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)   ()
19:36 A theoretical link between voltage loss, field-enhancement-factor reduction, and Fowler-Nordheim-plot saturation - Dr Richard Forbes (University of Surrey, UK)   ()
19:37 Note on using the principal Schottky-Nordheim barrier function v(x) - Dr Richard Forbes (University of Surrey, UK)   ()
19:38 Testing Fowler-Nordheim-type equations - Dr Richard Forbes (University of Surrey, UK)   ()
19:39 Dark current fluctuations in pre-breakdown conditions   ()
19:40 Crater evolution and droplet generation in vacuum arcs during the cathode spot development   ()
20:00 Pulsed DC System Facilities - Iaroslava Profatilova (Nat. Acad. Sci., Inst. Appl. Phys. (UA))   ()
14:00
Experiments and Diagnostics (until 15:00) ()
14:00 Dislocation patterns in Cu-OFE by EBSD and Breakdown activity - Enrique Rodriguez Castro (University of Vigo (ES))   ()
14:30 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)   ()
15:00
Applications and Background (until 18:00) ()
15:00 Miniature Vacuum Arc Thruster with Controlled Cathode Feeding - Prof. Igal Kronhaus (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)   ()
15:30 --- break ---
16:00 Study of vacuum RF breakdown in strong magnetic fields - Alexey Kochemirovskiy (The University of Chicago)   ()
16:30 Dielectric Surface Breakdown in Sub-100 nm Metal-Insulator-Metal Fins with Exposed SiOx and Si3N4 Sidewalls - Ms Morgan Monroe (Modern Electron)   ()
17:00 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MULTIPACTOR SUPPRESSION IN DIELECTRIC MATERIALS - Dr Mohamed El khaldi (LAL/IN2P3/CNRS)   ()
19:00
conf activity (until 22:00) ()
14:00
Modeling and simulations (until 17:10) ()
14:00 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)   ()
14:30 Classical array models and the location of the field emission tunnelling barrier - Dr Richard Forbes (University of Surrey, UK)   ()
15:00 --- break ---
15:20 Influence of nanoscale surface modifications to the estimated field enhancement and emission currents - Vahur Zadin (University of Tartu)   ()
15:50 Modeling RF Breakdown - Jim Norem (Argonne National Lab)   ()
16:20 Application of the Voltage Holding Predictive Model - Dr Antonio De Lorenzi   ()
16:50 --- goodbyes ---