Author: Faillace, L.
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TUPWI042 Initial Results from Streaked Low-energy Ultra-fast Electron Diffraction System 2339
 
  • J.J. Hartzell, R.B. Agustsson, S. Boucher, L. Faillace, A.V. Smirnov
    RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, California, USA
  • P. Musumeci, E.W. Threlkeld
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
  RadiaBeam, in collaboration with UCLA, is developing an inexpensive, low-energy, ultra-fast, streaked electron diffraction (S-UED) system which allows one to reconstruct a single ultrafast event with a single pulse of electrons using and RF deflector. The high-frequency (GHz), high voltage, phase-locked RF field in the deflector enables temporal resolution of atomic events as fine as sub-100 fs. In this paper, we present an overview of the system being developed and the initial experimental results. We also discuss the challenges based on our design of a UED system that incorporates a novel, high-resolution dielectric-loaded RF deflector and a solid-state X-band amplifier.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-TUPWI042  
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WEAD2 Experimental Results of Carbon NanoTube Cathodes inside RF Environment 2475
 
  • L. Faillace, S. Boucher, J.J. Hartzell, A.Y. Murokh
    RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, California, USA
  • D. Mihalcea, P. Piot, J.C.T. Thangaraj
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • H. Panuganti
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by US DOE SBIR grant # DE-SC0004459
Carbon Nano Tubes (CNT’s) as field-emitters have been investigated for more than two decades and can produce relatively low emittance electron beams for a given cathode size. Unlike thermionic cathodes, CNT cathodes are able to produce electrons at room temperature and relatively low electric field (a few MV/m). In collaboration with FermiLab, we have recently tested CNT cathodes both with DC and RF fields. We observed a beam current close to 1A with a ~1cm2 CNT cathode inside an L-band RF gun. Steady operation was obtained up to 650 mA and the measured current vs. surface field plot showed perfect agreement with the Fowler-Nordheim distribution.
 
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WEPJE019 Simulations of Field-Emission Electron Beams from CNT Cathodes in RF Photoinjectors 2711
 
  • D. Mihalcea, H. Panuganti, P. Piot
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  • L. Faillace
    RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, California, USA
  • P. Piot, J.C.T. Thangaraj
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  Average field emission currents of up to 700 mA were produced by Carbon Nano Tube (CNT) cathodes in a 1.3 GHz RF gun at Fermilab High Brightness Electron Source Lab. (HBESL). The CNT cathodes were manufactured at Xintek and tested under DC conditions at RadiaBeam. The electron beam intensity as well as the other beam properties are directly related to the time-dependent electric field at the cathode and the geometry of the RF gun. This report focuses on simulations of the electron beam generated through field-emission and the results are compared with experimental measurements. These simulations were performed with the time-dependent Particle In Cell (PIC) code WARP.  
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