Claims
- 1. An RF cavity for accelerating charged particles introduced therein comprising:
- a housing structure having an inner surface and a longitudinal axis;
- a plurality of metallic members positioned within said structure and space along said longitudinal axis, each metallic member having inner and outer edges; and
- supporting members for supporting each metallic member within said structure, said supporting members being fabricated from a high strength dielectric material characterized by high thermal conductivity, low electrical conductivity, high threshold of electrical breakdown voltage, low dielectric constant and low dielectric loss, wherein said dielectric material is made of polycrystalline diamond.
- 2. The RF cavity of claim 1 wherein each metallic member comprises a disk having a hole formed at the center thereof.
- 3. The RF cavity of claim 1 wherein each supporting member has inner and outer edges, the inner edge thereof being connected to the outer edge of an adjacent metallic member.
- 4. The RF cavity of claim 3 wherein the outer edge of each of said supporting members is connected to the inner surface of said housing structure.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is based on U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/036,907 filed Feb. 5, 1997.
GOVERNMENTAL RIGHTS IN INVENTION
This invention was made with Governmental support under Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contract No. DE-FG03-96 ER 82156 awarded by the Department of Energy to DULY Research Inc. The Government has certain rights in the invention.
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