Author: Liang, X.
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MOPRI059 Fabrication of Alkali Antimonide Photocathode for SRF Gun 742
 
  • E. Wang, S.A. Belomestnykh, I. Ben-Zvi, D. Kayran, G.T. McIntyre, T. Rao, J. Smedley, D. Weiss, W. Xu
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • I. Ben-Zvi, M. Ruiz-Osés
    Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
  • X. Liang
    SBU, Stony Brook, New York, USA
  • H.M. Xie
    PKU, Beijing, People's Republic of China
 
  Funding: * This work is supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. DOE and DOE grant
The first alkali antimonide photocathode was prepared and inserted into the BNL 704 MHz SRF gun. An excimer laser cleaning system was installed in a cathode deposition chamber and the cleaning technique developed previously was used in the first cathode preparation. We also demonstrated that oxidized cathode can be removed by exposing it to the same excimer laser. In this paper, we show the set up of the incorporated laser cleaning system and the QE enhancement of alkali antimony photocathode. The vacuum evolution at transport cart and QE measurement system are also discussed.
 
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MOPRI063 Alkali Antimonide Photocathodes in a Can 745
 
  • J. Smedley, K. Attenkofer, T. Rao, S.G. Schubert
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • I. Ben-Zvi, X. Liang, E.M. Muller, M. Ruiz-Osés
    Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
  • J. DeFazio
    PHOTONIS USA Pennsylvanis, Inc., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
  • H.A. Padmore, J.J. Wong
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • J. Xie
    ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: Work was supported by the US DOE, under Contracts DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02-98CH10886, KC0407-ALSJNT-I0013, DE-FG02-12ER41837 and DE-SC0005713. Use of CHESS is supported by NSF award DMR-0936384.
The next generation of x-ray light sources will need reliable, high quantum efficiency photocathodes. These cathodes will likely be from the alkali antimonide family, which currently holds the record for highest average current achieved from a photoinjector. In this work, we explore a new option for delivering these cathodes to a machine which requires them: use of sealed commercial vacuum tubes. Several sealed tubes have been introduced into a vacuum system and separated from their housing, exposing the active photocathode on a transport arm suitable for insertion into a photoinjector. The separation has been achieved without loss of QE. These cathodes are compared to those grown via traditional methods, both in terms of QE and in terms of crystalline structure, and found to be similar.
 
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