Customers

Linac Systems has an unwavering commitment to give customers the machines they need.  Below are accelerators that our customers are currently operating.

 

University Research

The first machine that we delivered was a 1.5 MeV RFQ built for accelerating deuterons to produce positions as part of a project to study positronium.  This RFQ linac and RF Power Amplifier were delivered to a campus of the University of California.  Currently, they are working to obtain funding to extend this machine to 5 MeV with an RFI section that Linac Systems has designed and developed. 

 

Solar Technology Application

This 1.1 MeV RFQ linac system is currently being used by a company in California for advanced development of solar panel technology.  This proton beam is used to cleave very thin layers of single-crystal silicon from larger silicon boules.  This results in a very efficient conversion of sunlight into electrical energy.  This machine was delivered with the option to extend it, with two additional RFI linac sections, to energies of 2.3 and 3.5 MeV.  A second Rf Amplifier was recently delivered to the company to allow operation at a higher duty factor.

 

Proton Therapy

This 1.5 MeV RFQ linac was built and delivered to a company in Japan for use as an injector into a large Synchrotron for Proton Therapy.  Recently, the first patient was treated at the Fukui Proton Therapy Center in Fukui, Japan. 

 

Other Linac Systems Projects

A current project at Linac Systems is the completion of a 2.5 MeV, 20 mA, Accelerator-Based Epithermal Neutron source (ABENS) to serve the Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) modality of cancer.  Presently, this modality of cancer therapy must rely on nuclear reactor for their neutrons.  The medical community dearly wants an accelerator-based source of these neutrons.