Superconducting RF materials other than bulk niobium: a review

AM Valente-Feliciano - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
For the past five decades, bulk niobium (Nb) has been the material of choice for
superconducting RF (SRF) cavity applications. Alternatives such as Nb thin films and other …

Tuning microwave losses in superconducting resonators

A Gurevich - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The performance of superconducting resonators, particularly cavities for particle
accelerators and micro cavities and thin film resonators for quantum computations and …

Nitrogen and argon doping of niobium for superconducting radio frequency cavities: a pathway to highly efficient accelerating structures

A Grassellino, A Romanenko… - Superconductor …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a surface treatment that systematically improves the quality factor of niobium radio
frequency cavities beyond the expected limit for niobium. A combination of annealing in a …

Theory of RF superconductivity for resonant cavities

A Gurevich - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
An overview of a theory of electromagnetic response of superconductors in strong radio-
frequency (RF) electromagnetic fields is given with the emphasis on applications to …

Superconducting radio-frequency fundamentals for particle accelerators

A Gurevich - Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology, 2012 - World Scientific
An overview of fundamentals of superconductors under radio-frequency electromagnetic
fields in particle accelerators is given, with emphasis on intrinsic physics and materials …

Radio-frequency electromagnetic field and vortex penetration in multilayered superconductors

T Kubo, Y Iwashita, T Saeki - Applied Physics Letters, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
A multilayered structure with a single superconductor layer and a single insulator layer
formed on a bulk superconductor is studied. General formulae for the vortex-penetration field …

Development and characterization of Nb3Sn/Al2O3 superconducting multilayers for particle accelerators

C Sundahl, J Makita, PB Welander, YF Su… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) resonator cavities provide extremely high quality
factors> 1010 at 1–2 GHz and 2 K in large linear accelerators of high-energy particles. The …

Optimization of tailored multilayer superconductors for RF application and protection against premature vortex penetration

CZ Antoine, M Aburas, A Four, F Weiss… - Superconductor …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) cavities for accelerators is the only superconductivity
application that operates in the Meissner state. For decades, bulk niobium, which exhibits …

Stable implicit numerical algorithm of time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau theory coupled with thermal effect for vortex behaviors in hybrid superconductor systems

QY Wang, C Xue - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Hybrid multi-superconducting structures exist in a variety of superconducting devices, such
as superconductor–insulator–superconductor multilayer structure in superconducting radio …

Next-generation superconducting RF technology based on advanced thin film technologies and innovative materials for accelerator enhanced performance and …

AM Valente-Feliciano, C Antoine, S Anlage… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Superconducting RF is a key technology for future particle accelerators, now relying on
advanced surfaces beyond bulk Nb for a leap in performance and efficiency. The SRF thin …