Engineering Seminar Announcement - July 29, 2005
Engineering Seminar:
"Development of Neutron Tubes in the Plasma
and Ion Source Technology Group"
Speaker: Frederic Gicquel
Scientific Engineer Associate
Plasma and Ion Source Technology Group
LBNL
Date: Friday, July 29, 2005
Time: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Location: 54-130 Perseverance Hall
Description
- During the last years, the development of neutron tubes in the Plasma and Ion source technology group accelerated. Since the initial developments of very compact neutron tubes supported by LDRD, a number of tubes with a very wide range of applications and therefore of specifications have been designed and fabricated. The first tube built for a customer was delivered in November 2004 to the University of Turin (Italy) for NCT studies. A number of new tubes are being built. They range from the very simple education oriented tube to the more complex Pulsed Fast Neutron Transmission Spectrography tube that is destined to luggage screening and small air cargo container.
Bio-sketch
- Frederic Gicquel joined the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2001. At first, his work consisted in the development of an H2+ ion source to be used on a cyclotron. His assignment quickly evolved to include all major design and engineering calculations of systems developed in the Plasma and Ion Source Technology Group. This included neutron tubes, focused ion beam system and elements of a single ion implantation system for quantum computing.
- Frederic Gicquel holds a Master's Degree in Engineering from the general engineering Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France) with a major in Aircraft propulsion. He wrote his thesis about the improvement of the thermal calculation program written in Fortran 77 used by Rolls Royce to design turbines and compressors.
