Author: Padmore, H.A.
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THPC136 High Efficiency Visible Photocathode Development 3206
 
  • J. Smedley, K. Mueller, T. Rao
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • K. Attenkofer, S.W. Lee
    ANL, Argonne, USA
  • I. Ben-Zvi, X. Liang, E.M. Muller, M. Ruiz-Oses
    Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
  • H.A. Padmore, T. Vecchione
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Al­ka­li an­ti­monide cath­odes are crit­i­cal both for high av­er­age cur­rent pho­toin­jec­tors for en­er­gy re­cov­ery linacs and for high quan­tum ef­fi­cien­cy pho­tode­tec­tors. These cath­odes have his­tor­i­cal­ly been plagued by ex­treme vac­u­um sen­si­tiv­i­ty, non-re­pro­ducibil­i­ty and poor life­time. We re­port on on­go­ing ef­forts to im­prove the per­for­mance of al­ka­li an­ti­monides (prin­ci­pal­ly K2C­sSb). Cath­odes have been fab­ri­cat­ed which have a QE of 7% at 532 nm. The films are much more re­sis­tant to oxy­gen and water ex­po­sure than pre­vi­ous­ly thought, with a 50% yield life­time of 20 hrs at 2 pBar par­tial pres­sure of water. Sev­er­al anal­y­sis tech­niques have been em­ployed in this study, in­clud­ing in-situ x-ray diffrac­tion dur­ing growth to mea­sure grain size and tex­ture, mea­sure­ment of trans­verse mo­men­tum dis­tri­bu­tion of the emit­ted elec­trons, and mea­sure­ment of the sto­i­chiom­e­try of the films via x-ray flu­o­res­cence. An ex­ten­sive study of the growth pa­ram­e­ters, in­clud­ing both trans­par­ent and metal­lic sub­strates, sput­tered and evap­o­rat­ed films, vari­a­tion of growth time and tem­per­a­tures and post-growth an­neal­ing pro­cess­es, is cur­rent­ly un­der­way.