RRCAT Newsletter - Issue 2 of 2015
 Contents

  From the Director's Desk
  From the Convener's Desk

 Accelerator Programme:
  
A.1: Design, development and commissioning of "Soft X-ray Reflectivity Beamline" at Indus-2
A.2: Development of upgraded stripline kickers for Indus-2
A.3: Control system for Indus-2 insertion devices U1 and U2
A.4: Liquefaction capacity enhancement of indigenous Helium Liquefier
A.5: Upgraded power supplies for TL-2 dipole magnets and Indus-1 quadrupole magnets
A.6: Active shunt for Indus-2 quadrupole magnets for beam based alignment study
A.7: Control system for 10 MeV industrial linac
A.8: Development of 1 MW, 352.2 MHz cw and pulsed RF test stand
A.9: Development of 650 MHz, 30 kW solid state RF amplifier
A.10: Fabrication of Fresnel Zone Plates for X-ray focusing
A.11: Development of M(H) tracer for characterization of permanent magnets
A.12: Brazing of unplated SS316L to copper

Laser Programme:

L.1: Underwater laser cutting technology for flared fuel assemblies of Dhruva reactor
L.2: Development of a compact high energy Nd:phosphate glass laser system
L.3: Laser Additive Manufacturing of specially designed nuclear components
L.4: Development of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) based distributed temperature sensor
L.5: Fast electron transport in foil targets irradiated by ultra-short intense laser pulses
L.6: Development of 400 W of all-fiber Yb-doped cw fiber
L.7: Multi-MeV quasi-mono-energetic electrons from laser-solid interaction
L.8: Oblique laser peening-A new approach to peen internal surface of cylinders
L.9: Development of control system for Table Top Terra-watt laser
L.10: Wide aperture XeC1 laser with high misalignment tolerance and pointing stability
L.11: Modular pump head design for diode-side-pumped high power CW Nd:YAG laser

 Infrastructure:
  
I.1: Commissioning of high performance computing cluster, Kshitij-4
I.2: Installation and commissioning of 50 MT EOT crane
I.3: New ultraclean controlled atmosphere brazing furnace
I.4: Micro-irrigation system for gardens
I.5: Diamond Jubilee Guest-house and Commemorative-structutre

 Theme Articles:

T.1: Plasmonic nanoparticles synthesized using pulsed laser ablation and their optical properties
T.2: X-ray diffraction studies of amorphous solid using ADXRD beamline (BL-12) on Indus-2 synchrotron source
T.3: Fiber Bragg grating written by second harmonic of copper vapour laser

 Publications: Publications from RRCAT during January 2015 - June 2015

 News:

N.1: Celebration of Foundation Day of RRCAT
N.2: National Science Day Celebration at RRCAT
N.3: Fire Service Week at RRCAT
N.4: Women’s Day Celebration at RRCAT
N.5: First Orientation Course on Accelerators, Lasers and related Science and Technologies (OCAL)-2015 at RRCAT
N.6: Graduation Function of 15th batch of BARC Training School at RRCAT
N.7: Honours and Awards
N.8: Superannuations
N.9: आरआरकेट में माह जनवरी, 2015 से जून, 2015 तक की अवधि के दौरान हिन्दी के प्रचार- प्रसार से संबंधित विभिन्न गतिविधियाँ

 

RRCAT Newsletter - Issue 2 of 2015



Convener:
  • Dr. Rajeev Khare

Members:
  • Dr. Vinit Kumar
  • Sh. Shailendra S. Tomar
  • Dr. M. B. Borage
  • Dr. Aparna Chakrabarty
  • Dr. Anand Moorti
  • Dr. Sunil Verma
  • Sh. J. K. Pattnaik
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