DIFFER-IBF

Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research – Ion Beam Facility

TA36DIFFER-IBF 

Location

De Zaale 20

5612 AJ Eindhoven,  Netherlands 

Description

The ion beam facility (IBF) housed by DIFFER is currently the only facility of its kind available in the Netherlands. A 3.5 MV Singletron from HVEE is the pillar of the IBF and is capable of producing any gas ions, with present use focusing on H, 3He, and 4He. It is planned to add Ar in August 2024. The advantage of this type of accelerator is high beam stability with low ripple and high beam current. It can be used for ion beam analysis (IBA; elemental depth profiling) and ion-irradiation (defect engineering).

The accelerator has 4 beamlines. One is linked to MAGNUM allowing for the world’s highest plasma-flux exposure and for in-situ IBA, the second leads to UPP allowing for in-operando IBA and mid-flux plasma exposure, and the third goes to an ex-situ IBA chamber called IBAS. The last chamber goes to DICE (DIFFER irradiation-corrosion experiment) allowing for simultaneous ion-irradiation (usually by protons) and corrosion (molten salt, water, liquid metals).

Testing Capabilities

Testing capabilities include any material where one needs to investigate the composition and obtain elemental depth profiles in the near-surface layers (from nm to a few um) of solids. All IBA methods are highly sensitive, capable of detecting elements down to the sub-monolayer range. Typically, the depth resolution spans from a few nanometers to several tens of nanometers. IBA is quantitative without standards, with an accuracy of a few percent. Additionally, channelling can be used to determine the depth profile of damage in single crystals.

Technical Equipment

  • IBAS beamline is equipped with:
    • RBS: Rutherford Backscattering
    • NRA: Nuclear Reaction Analysis
    • ERD: Elastic Recoil Detection
    • PIXE: Particle Induced X-ray Detection
    • PIGE: Particle Induced Gamma Emission
    • Channeling
  • DICE beamline
  • UPP beamline

Additional information

Technology Readiness Level: 7 or above

Special considerations: None but the users have to be assisted by DIFFER staff. 

Technology clusters: Materials for Energy

Website: http://www.differ.nl/facilities

Availability: Generally open all the time, however the facility is in very high demand.

Provision of tools to prepare data sets in a FAIR way:  Yes 

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