<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Congratulations to you and Mark and the whole team at JLAB. Great job!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Karl<br></div><br><div data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn"><div><hr id="null"><br></div><div><span class="highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Lato"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"> Karl Smolenski Xelera Research LLC</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span class="highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Lato"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"> Founding Partner 100 Lower Creek Rd</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span class="highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Lato"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <a href="mailto:Karl.Smolenski@XeleraResearch.com" target="_blank">Karl.Smolenski@XeleraResearch.com</a></span></span></span></span><span class="highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Lato"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Ithaca, NY 14850, USA</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span class="highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Lato"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"> +1 607-391-2202 </span></span></span></span><a style="color: rgb(89, 143, 222); font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" target="_blank" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.xeleraresearch.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=CJqEzB1piLOyyvZjb8YUQw&r=-iZPHcIBcQspPYbsD5dQ1A&m=v848ZA1DkAwjdVmmt9aUyOPhyf4e56Gp3f_5nA1kYpg&s=1jEXz90HFHjOys91-nVub7fUkwkeN1_cJR9uqjSb2vE&e=">www.xeleraresearch.com</a><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><hr id="null"><br></div></div><br><div data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" style="" class="zmail_extra"><br><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- On Thu, 05 Dec 2019 10:18:13 -0500 <b>Shinn, Michelle <Michelle.Shinn@science.doe.gov></b> wrote ----<br></div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 6px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px;"><div class=" zm_-2592268071750271275_parse_-4191621146538900228"><div class="x_112018747WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Fay et al.,<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Congrats, I am so excited to see the start of beam delivery – now on to seeing what sort of beam!<br></p><p class="MsoNormal">I’ll savor a virtual donut next Monday.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Michelle<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br></p><div><div style="border: none;border-top: solid rgb(225,225,225) 1.0pt;padding: 3.0pt 0.0in 0.0in 0.0in;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Fay Hannon <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:fhannon@jlab.org">fhannon@jlab.org</a>> <br> <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 5, 2019 9:49 AM<br> <b>To:</b> "TGun" <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:tgun@xeleraresearch.com">tgun@xeleraresearch.com</a>>; "TGun" <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:TGun@jlab.org">TGun@jlab.org</a>><br> <b>Cc:</b> Robert Rimmer <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:rarimmer@jlab.org">rarimmer@jlab.org</a>>; Andrei Seryi <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:seryi@jlab.org">seryi@jlab.org</a>>; Mike Spata <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:spata@jlab.org">spata@jlab.org</a>>; Shinn, Michelle <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:Michelle.Shinn@science.doe.gov">Michelle.Shinn@science.doe.gov</a>>; Bubba Bullard <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:bullard@jlab.org">bullard@jlab.org</a>>; Steve Benson <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:felman@jlab.org">felman@jlab.org</a>>; Jerry Kowal <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:jkowal@jlab.org">jkowal@jlab.org</a>>; John
Musson <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:musson@jlab.org">musson@jlab.org</a>>; Harry Fanning <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:fanning@jlab.org">fanning@jlab.org</a>><br> <b>Subject:</b> First beam!</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Dear All,<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">A happy update - we did it! Yesterday, with Mark driving, we saw first beam from the Xelera SBIR thermionic gun. A huge amount of work and effort went into producing this first graph of the emission cut-off voltage as a function of gun
high-voltage, and we are immensely proud and excited.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="cid:image001.png@01D5AB55.2EA34700" style="width: 4.0in;height: 2.425in;" width="4in" height="2.425in"><img src="cid:image002.jpg@01D5AB55.2EA34700" style="width: 3.8in;height: 3.0in;" width="3.8in" height="3in"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Congratulations and thank you to the extended team at Xelera and JLab. This is just the beginning – watch this space!<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Come join us in the LERF breakroom, Monday 9<sup>th</sup> @ 11am, to celebrate with donuts.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<br> Fay</p></div></div></blockquote></div><style><br></style><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>