INTEFF_TOTEM is a Proof-of-Concept project in the framework of “Innovazione tecnologica dalla fisica fondamentale” (INTEFF) program promoted by INFN Technology Transfer Committee (CNTT). This project is funded by the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) for a period of 18 months and started on February 2021. The project aims to enhance the INFN patent no. WO 2019/053570 “Method for obtaining a solid target for radiopharmaceuticals production”, developed within the framework of the LARAMED project at LNL. A technological R&D program to improve the deposition efficiency of some materials (e.g., Cr, ZnO) on different substrates (metal and non-metal) with Magnetron Sputtering (MS) technique is planned. The goal is to limit, as much as technically achievable, the losses of the starting material, thus making this technique also attractive for the expensive isotopically enriched materials, typically used to manufacture cyclotron solid targets for the production of medical radionuclides. The current estimated Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of this patent is 4. At the end of the project, to evaluate the developed technology, some targets will be irradiated with the proton beam of the medical cyclotron available at the S. Cuore Don Calabria Hospital (SCDCH) in Negrar, (VR). With such a planned improvement, we expect to achieve a TRL of 6. Moreover, a technological development of another INFN patent held by LARAMED group (no. WO 2019/220224 A1, “A method and a target for the production of 67Cu”) is strictly related to this project. The manufacturing of the first step towards the realization of a ZnO multilayer target for 67Cu production with a high energy cyclotron (e.g., the BEST 70p at LNL) is foreseen using both MS and Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) techniques. The INTEFF_TOTEM project is carried out in the framework of the LARAMED target development activities [1] and in collaboration with the Servizio Tecnologia delle Superfici e Superconduttività at the LNL.
INTEFF_TOTEM Project: magneTron sputtering cyclOtron TargEt Manufacturing
A. Kotliarenko;P. Martini;L. Mou;G. Pupillo;
2021
Abstract
INTEFF_TOTEM is a Proof-of-Concept project in the framework of “Innovazione tecnologica dalla fisica fondamentale” (INTEFF) program promoted by INFN Technology Transfer Committee (CNTT). This project is funded by the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) for a period of 18 months and started on February 2021. The project aims to enhance the INFN patent no. WO 2019/053570 “Method for obtaining a solid target for radiopharmaceuticals production”, developed within the framework of the LARAMED project at LNL. A technological R&D program to improve the deposition efficiency of some materials (e.g., Cr, ZnO) on different substrates (metal and non-metal) with Magnetron Sputtering (MS) technique is planned. The goal is to limit, as much as technically achievable, the losses of the starting material, thus making this technique also attractive for the expensive isotopically enriched materials, typically used to manufacture cyclotron solid targets for the production of medical radionuclides. The current estimated Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of this patent is 4. At the end of the project, to evaluate the developed technology, some targets will be irradiated with the proton beam of the medical cyclotron available at the S. Cuore Don Calabria Hospital (SCDCH) in Negrar, (VR). With such a planned improvement, we expect to achieve a TRL of 6. Moreover, a technological development of another INFN patent held by LARAMED group (no. WO 2019/220224 A1, “A method and a target for the production of 67Cu”) is strictly related to this project. The manufacturing of the first step towards the realization of a ZnO multilayer target for 67Cu production with a high energy cyclotron (e.g., the BEST 70p at LNL) is foreseen using both MS and Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) techniques. The INTEFF_TOTEM project is carried out in the framework of the LARAMED target development activities [1] and in collaboration with the Servizio Tecnologia delle Superfici e Superconduttività at the LNL.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
