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Accelerator-based applications and commercial services
Ari Virtanen
NuPECC mini workshop 13.6.2014
Testing of space electronics
MicrofiltersRadiopharmaceutical isotopes
1. Main commercial applications
2. Other applications
• EU, ESA and with other collaborators
• Materials physics at Pelletron laboratory
OUTLINE
• Customers• Revenue
3. Future?
4. Conclusions
Commercial activityfor
space industry
Galactic and extra-galactic heavy ions and protons
We simulate space radiation effects
in satellite electronics
Trapped protons and heavy ions in Van Allen beltsHeavy ions in magnetosphere
Solar flare protons and heavy ions
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…
ISS
Customers
For example; in 2013– 46 test campaigns by 28
individual users– ~25% of K=130 beam time
Commercial activityfor
microfilter industry
Beam line
105 pores / cm2 109 pores / cm2 0.1 µm 10 µm
to etching
@OxypheN
Irradiation of polymer films
Membrane production• Current contract until 2018• Annual income ~260 keur• Annual beam time usage = 15 x 24hours
>100 km irradiated membrane in 4 days
X-section of the foil
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 appearance
Commercial activityfor
medical industry
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 project– Started 2007– Stopped in 2013 due to the delays and bad luck
• Substitutive radioisotope project is currently under way…
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 Center
Crew
Arto JavanainenPostdoctoral researcher
Mikko RossiLaboratory engineer
Jukka JaatinenLaboratory engineer
Heikki KettunenLaboratory engineer
Ari VirtanenResearch director
Taneli KalvasPostdoctoral researcher
Alexandre BosserGraduate studentfrom MU2
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20130 €
100,000 €
200,000 €
300,000 €
400,000 €
500,000 €
600,000 €
700,000 €
800,000 €
900,000 €OTHERMEDICALSPACE OTHERSMEMBRANE
Annual revenue
In 2012 – 2013: 7 publications in peer reviewed journals and 2 PhDs
Our concept:”Business from Top-Research” won in 2011 the annual entrepreneurship competition among 13 Finnish universities
Commercial break
Other applications
• Main research fields– Fundamental ion-matter interactions (cross sections, stopping forces, straggling)– Materials research applications
• Facility– 1.7 MV Pelletron accelerator (in Jyväskylä since 2006)
• Three ion sources, four beam lines• H, He, Cl, Cu, Br, I, and other heavy ion beams, 0.2 – 20 MeV
Materials physics at Pelletron laboratory
Functionalized ion tracksEnhanced 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 writingLarge area exposures for high-aspect ratio structuresMicrofluidic chips for borrelia infection diagnostics
External PIXE
Collaboration with RECENART = Research Center for Art
• SkyFlash (262890 EU-FP7 Project) http://www.skyflash.eu/ – development of a RadHard by design (RHBD) methodology for non-volatile
flash memories– 84 keur
• Technical 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 funding
• Close collaborations with – Universities (Montpellier2 and Vanderbilt)– Sandia National Labs– STMicroelectronics
Other radiation testing activities
Future?
New 18 GHz ECRIS (HIISI)
• Higher energies for heavy ions up to 15 MeV/udeeper penetration in siliconirradiations in air with possibility to tilt
• 300 keur from ESA for development RADEF competitive with e.g. Texas A&M Univ.
HORIZON 2020
• Proposals for H2020-COMPET-2014 (RADEF as partner)1. SPES (SOI PLL for Earth hostile environment and Space applications)2. SOLIS (SOI Library for Sapce Applications)3. SpaceMIST (Space Mixed Signal Circuits and Technologies)4. R2RAM (Radiation Hard Resistive Random-Access Memory)5. LIRARSUP (Light weight, Radiation Resistant SUPerconductiong
wires for space applications)
• 1-2 projects are expected to pass• approx. 100 keur per project for RADEF
Electron LINAC (Varian)• Energetic electrons for radiation hardness assurance
(RHA) testing• 100 keur from ESA• Ee = 6-18 MeV• JUICE-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 science
– Van Allen electron belt (tens of MeV)
NAS
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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
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Conclusions
• RADEF’s activity is going strong– firm client base (space industry and Oxyphen)
• approx. 600 keur annually– strong support from ESA
• 300 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 proposals
• Radioisotope production project under way
8.5.2014
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 20170 €
200,000 €
400,000 €
600,000 €
800,000 €
1,000,000 €
1,200,000 €
1,400,000 €
1,600,000 €OTHEREst. MEDICALMEDICALEst. SPACESPACE OTHERSMEMBRANEESA
Conclusions – the three scenarios?
+ K30
=Bold
?
+ Linac/Pelletron=Likely?
25% K130=Cautious?
Commercialisation of K-30 is needed!
Thank you
for your attention