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TY - CONF AU - Grewe, R. AU - Alff, L. AU - Arnold, M. AU - Conrad, J. AU - Flege, S. AU - Hug, F. AU - Major, M. AU - Pietralla, N. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - He, Yuan ED - Li, Lu ED - Zhao, Ning TI - Introducing the Vertical High-temperature UHV Furnace of the S-DALINAC for Future Cavity Material Studies J2 - Proc. of SRF2017, Lanzhou, China, July 17-21, 2017 C1 - Lanzhou, China T2 - International Conference on RF Superconductivity T3 - 18 LA - english AB - Since 2005 the Institute for Nuclear Physics in Darmstadt operates a high temperature UHV furnace for temperatures of up to 1750°C. It has been used several times for hydrogen bake-out of the SRF cavities of the S-DALINAC with proven success. In 2013, studies at FNAL have shown that cavities treated with nitrogen reached an up to four times higher q-factor*. The cavities are exposed to N2 at 850°C at the end of the H2 bake-out. A thin layer of normalconducting hexagonal niobium nitride (NbN) forms at the surface which is removed by electropolishing while the higher quality factors are attributed to the N2 diffusion into the bulk Nb. At temperatures from 1300°C to 1700°C a thin layer of the superconducting cubic phase of NbN can be observed, e.g. delta-phase NbN**, which has a higher critical field and higher critical temperature and thus is very intereresting for applications for SRF cavities***. The UHV furnace has been prepared for future treatments of Nb samples and cavities in a N2 atmosphere at high temperatures for research on cubic NbN. The material properties of the samples will be analyzed at the ATFT group at the Department for Material Sciences of TU Darmstadt. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 891 EP - 893 KW - ion KW - niobium KW - vacuum KW - cavity KW - linac DA - 2018/01 PY - 2018 SN - 978-3-95450-191-5 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-SRF2017-THPB066 UR - http://jacow.org/srf2017/papers/thpb066.pdf ER -