Author: Soomary, L.A.J.
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WEPNEC17 Developments in Photocathode R&D at STFC Daresbury Laboratory: New Transverse Energy Spread Measurements and the Development of a Multi-Alkali Photocathode Preparation Facility 103
 
  • L.B. Jones, B.L. Militsyn, T.C.Q. Noakes
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • L.B. Jones, D.P. Juarez-Lopez, B.L. Militsyn, T.C.Q. Noakes, L.A.J. Soomary, C.P. Welsch
    Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • D.P. Juarez-Lopez, L.A.J. Soomary, C.P. Welsch
    The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
 
  Photocathode R&D activity within ASTeC is focussed on further development of the tools required for the preparation and characterisation of high performance photocathodes for X-FELs. Our Transverse Energy Spread Spectrometer (TESS)* experimental facility can be used with III-V semiconductor, multi-alkali and metal photocathodes to measure transverse and longitudinal energy distributions of the emitted electrons. Recently TESS has been upgraded to increase the instrument sensitivity for operation with low QE materials under UV illumination. Our R&D facilities also include in-vacuum quantum efficiency measurement, XPS, STM, plus ex-vacuum optical and STM microscopy for surface metrology. Intrinsic photocathode emittance is affected by many factors including illumination wavelength and surface roughness. We present energy distribution measurements for electrons emitted from copper, niobium and zirconium photocathode samples with measured levels of surface roughness under illumination by wavelengths between 256 and 291 nm. We also present an update on progress to establish a multi-alkali photocathode preparation facility to support the CLARA** linear accelerator.
* Proc. FEL’13, TUPPS033, 290-293
** CLARA Conceptual Design Report J. Inst. 9 T05001
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ERL2019-WEPNEC17  
About • paper received ※ 04 October 2019       paper accepted ※ 01 November 2019       issue date ※ 24 June 2020  
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