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Accelerator-based applications and commercial services

Ari Virtanen

NuPECC

mini workshop

13.6.2014 Slide2

Testing of space electronics

Microfilters

Radiopharmaceutical

isotopes

1. Main

commercial

applications

2.

Other

applications

EU, ESA and with other collaborators

Materials physics at Pelletron laboratory

OUTLINE

CustomersRevenue

3. Future?

4

.

ConclusionsSlide3

Commercial activity

for

s

pace industry Slide4

Galactic and extra-galactic

heavy

ions and

protons

We simulate space radiation effects

i

n satellite electronics

Trapped

protons and heavy ions in Van Allen belts

Heavy ions in magnetosphere

Solar flare

protons

and heavy ionsSlide5

Official test laboratory of ESA since 2005

ESA/ESTEC/Contract

No. 18197/04/NL/CP

”

Utilisation

of the High Energy Heavy Ion

Test Facility for Component Radiation Studies”

Tested satellite electronics in RADEF for ESA, NASA, JAXA (Japan), CNES (France) and for more than 40 satellite companies and organizations

International Space Station

Telecommunication

satellites

Global

Positioning

System, GPS

Mission

satellites

Earth

observation

, i.e. EO-

satellites

Global

warming

Weather

etc

…

ISSSlide6

Customers

For example; in 2013

46 test campaigns by 28 individual users

~25% of K=130 beam timeSlide7

Commercial activity

for

m

icrofilter

industrySlide8

Beam line

10

5

pores

/ cm

2

10

9

pores / cm2

0.1 µm

10

µm

to

etching

@

OxypheN

Irradiation of polymer filmsSlide9

Membrane production

Current contract until 2018

Annual income

~

260 keurAnnual beam time usage = 15 x 24hours

>100 km irradiated membrane in 4 days

X-section

of the foilSlide10

Example

:

Use

in

car industry

Porsche Cayenne

Filters,

using

Oxyphen

RoTrac® capillary pore membrane, remove moisture, vent the headlamp and stop water and dust (c.f

. GoreTex)

Modern headlamps are transparent

systems with complex thermalcharacteristics; moisture, dust

and heat affect function and appearanceSlide11

Commercial activity

for

medical

industry Slide12

Radioisotope production

I-123 project

Development started 1998, commercial 2002

Stopped in 2008 partly due to worldwide market and the construction work for K-30

F-18 development projectStarted 2007Stopped in 2013 due to the delays and bad luck

Substitutive radioisotope project is currently under way…Slide13

Curing principle:

Killing agent, = alpha-emitter, is linked via a

chelator

to the targeting antibody agent, which seeks tumor cells.

Killing principle:

Short-range high-energy α-particles accumulate very

effectively their energy to the tumor cells. Killing power of alphas is 120 000 times higher than the long-range low-energy electrons.

Alpha therapy project

”

Targeted

medicine is the future, from

which the alpha-radio-immunotherapy

is an ultimate

example”

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterSlide14

C

rew

Arto Javanainen

Postdoctoral

researcher

Mikko Rossi

Laboratory engineer

Jukka Jaatinen

Laboratory engineer

Heikki KettunenLaboratory engineerAri Virtanen

Research director

Taneli KalvasPostdoctoral researcher

Alexandre

BosserGraduate

student

from MU2Slide15

Annual revenue

In 2012 – 2013: 7 publications in peer reviewed journals and 2 PhDs Slide16

Our

concept

:

”Business

from

Top-

Research” won

in 2011 the

annual

entrepreneurship competition among 13

Finnish universities

Commercial breakSlide17

Other applicationsSlide18

Main research fieldsFundamental ion-matter interactions (cross sections, stopping forces, straggling)

Materials

research applications

F

acility1.7 MV Pelletron accelerator (in Jyväskylä since 2006)Three ion sources, four beam linesH, He, Cl, Cu, Br, I, and other heavy ion beams, 0.2 – 20 MeV

Materials physics at Pelletron laboratorySlide19

Functionalized ion tracks

Enhanced electron multiplication in ALD coated pores

Thin films processing and applications

ALD

tool

Microfluidic

chip

Atomic layer deposition (ALD)

Oxides, nitrides, carbides, fluorides,

sulphides

and metals with excellent control of film thickness and high

conformality

for 3D

structures

Lithography with proton beam writing

Large area exposures for high-aspect ratio structures

Microfluidic chips for

borrelia

infection

diagnosticsSlide20

E

xternal PIXE

Collaboration with RECENART =

Research

Center for

Art

Slide21

SkyFlash (262890 EU-FP7 Project) http://www.skyflash.eu/

development of

a

RadHard

by design (RHBD) methodology for non-volatile flash memories84 keurTechnical assessment project for ESA “Effects of the ion species and energy on the oxide damage and SEGR failure”

100 keur

addition to the ESA’s basic fundingClose collaborations with Universities (Montpellier2 and Vanderbilt)Sandia National Labs

STMicroelectronicsOther radiation testing activitiesSlide22

Future?Slide23

New 18 GHz ECRIS (HIISI)

Higher energies for heavy ions



up to 15 MeV/u

deeper penetration in siliconirradiations in air with possibility to tilt300 keur from ESA for development RADEF competitive with e.g. Texas A&M Univ.Slide24

HORIZON 2020

Proposals for H2020-COMPET-2014 (RADEF as partner)

SPES (SOI PLL for Earth hostile environment and Space applications)

SOLIS (SOI Library for

Sapce Applications)SpaceMIST (Space Mixed Signal Circuits and Technologies)R2RAM (Radiation Hard Resistive Random-Access Memory)

LIRARSUP (Light weight, Radiation Resistant SUPerconductiong

wires for space applications)1-2 projects are expected to passapprox. 100 keur

per project for RADEFSlide25

Electron LINAC (Varian)

Energetic electrons for radiation hardness assurance (RHA) testing

100

keur

from ESAEe = 6-18 MeVJUICE-mission (Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer)“The most dominant trapped particle constituents at Jupiter are electrons with energy

in the 1 –

100 MeV range.” All ESA’s MEO-satellites (2000 – 35 000 km)Navigation (GPS), communication, and geodetic/space environment scienceVan Allen electron belt (tens of MeV)

NASA/JPLSlide26

Low energy protons for RHA

Stopping of muons vs. protons

State of the art technologies (< 65 nm)

errors due to direct ionization of protons

Ground effects due to muons?RADEF’s graduate student working on this

B.

Sierawski

, Vanderbilt Univ.Slide27

Conclusions

RADEF’s activity is going strong

firm client base (space industry and

Oxyphen

)approx. 600 keur annuallystrong support from ESA300 keur for HIISI (2015-16)100 keur for high energy electrons (2015-16)

continuing basic contract 240 keur for 2014-15

International collaboration (VU, UM2, Sandia, STM)partner in EU-FP7 project partnering in five H2020 proposalsRadioisotope production project under way

8.5.2014CoE SAB meeting

27Slide28

Conclusions – the three scenarios?

+

K30=

Bold

?

+

Linac

/

Pelletron

=

Likely?

25% K130=Cautious?

Commercialisation of K-30 is needed

!Slide29

Thank youfor your attention