Joint Development of High Output Pulse Power Supply Equipped with SiC Power Device
Contributing to the Simultaneous High Output Operation of Two Hard X-Ray FEL Beam Lines at SACLA
Development of an ultra precise high voltage charger for SACLA (X-FEL) |
|
|
Nichicon participates in the national project “SACLA (X-FEL :X-ray free electron laser) plan” certified as a key of national importance. X-FEL is a completely new technology, and is attracting attention as a "dream light source" that is believed to be capable of observing the size of matter at the molecular level as well as instantaneous movements. This new x-ray facility is expected to produce outstanding fundamental scientific research results in fields that include materials chemistry, plasma physics, astrophysics, chemistry, structural biology and biochemistry. These results can also be predicted to also have great impacts in fields ranging widely from nuclear fusion to catalysts. The stable operation of SACLA requires a high level of precision – i.e., a margin of error of 0.01%. We succeeded in developing a charger that fulfills the required performance. The SACLA (X-FEL) project uses 72 Nichicon ultra-precise high-voltage chargers and 70 modulators in the modulator power supplies for the klystron. » SACLA (X-FEL) : The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research |
Copyright(C)The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research(RIKEN) 
Ultra-precise high-voltage charger (right photo, in the rack) |
Developments in the medical field |
||
|
In particle beam treatment, which is a new treatment method for cancer that is gaining notice, the nuclei of elements are accelerated to irradiate cancerous areas in order to pinpoint and destroy them. This technique also uses our power supplies for ultra-precise accelerators, which apply our technologies for high-voltage high-current control, high-capacity inverters, direct-current stabilization and high-precision digital applications. |
||
|
||
J-PARC (Tokai mura, Ibaraki/Japan Atomic Energy Agency) |
||
|
The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), which is a high-intensity proton acceleration facility, is being advanced jointly by the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). This pioneering scientific research facility is comprised of a world-class accelerator that generates high-intensity proton beams and an experimental facility that uses those high-intensity proton beams. Nichicon technologies support the world’s best  |
||
Nichicon technologies are even utilized in SPring-8, which is one of the world's largest synchrotron radiation facilities |
||
The large synchrotron radiation facility known as "SPring - 8" situated in Harima Science Garden City is among the world's largest research facilities of its kind, and capable of generating "synchrotron radiation" of the higest quality in the world. At this facility, many types of power supplies developed by Nichicon are implemented, including "high-current stabilized power supplies for electromagnets" and "power supplies for klystron." » SPring-8 : The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research |
||
Nichicon has developed the largest electron beam accelerators in Japan, yielding an output of 8 million volts, as well as electro-magnetic power supplies for accelerators and many other applications. |
||
 Nichicon has developed several 8-million-volt electron beam accelerators capable of generating pulses in ultra-short bursts lasting only ten-millionths of a second, with power in excess of approximately one trillion watts, equivalent to the total amount of power generated in the entire world. These accelerators are installed at the Nagaoka University of Technology. Moreover, Nichicon has developed many types of power supplies for accelerators. It has also delivered electro-magnetic power supplies for accelerators for the “B-Factory Project” that aims to solve the mystery of the creation of the universe (the Big Bang). The High Energy Accelerator Research Organization under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is promoting this project. Nichicon contribute to the generation of artificial neutrinos in the K2K experiments under the leadership of Honorary Professor Masatoshi Koshiba of the University of Tokyo, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2002. |
