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TY - CONF AU - Sun, Z. AU - Connolly, A.B. AU - Ge, M. AU - Liepe, M. AU - Oseroff, T.E. AU - Porter, R.D. AU - Thompson, M.O. ED - Liu, Lin ED - Byrd, John M. ED - Neuenschwander, Regis T. ED - Picoreti, Renan ED - Schaa, Volker R. W. TI - Surface Roughness Reduction of Nb₃Sn Thin Films via Laser Annealing for Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavities J2 - Proc. of IPAC2021, Campinas, SP, Brazil, 24-28 May 2021 CY - Campinas, SP, Brazil T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 12 LA - english AB - Superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities, a key component of particle accelerators, await new SRF materials beyond the state-of-the-art niobium. Nb₃Sn is one of the most competitive candidates, since it increases the superheating field, allows the operation temperature up to 4K, and improves cavity efficiency. Surface roughness and grain boundaries, however, significantly affect the RF performance of current Nb₃Sn cavities. Here, we explore a post laser annealing technique to reduce the surface roughness. In doing so, we deposited a TiN laser-absorber on Nb₃Sn and Nb surfaces, and then annealed the samples by laser scanning via different laser systems. The Nb₃Sn surface roughness was minimized to 101 nm (Ra) by laser annealing via 308 nm, 35 ns pulses. Surface imaging and Fourier analysis revealed laser annealing is able to remove sharp edges and <1 um wavelength features. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 2283 EP - 2285 KW - laser KW - SRF KW - cavity KW - superconductivity KW - HOM DA - 2021/08 PY - 2021 SN - 2673-5490 SN - 978-3-95450-214-1 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB338 UR - https://jacow.org/ipac2021/papers/tupab338.pdf ER -