Author: Jordan-Sweet, J.
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THPAC12 Preparation and Investigation of Antimony Thin Films for Multi-Alkali Photocathodes 1163
 
  • X. Liang, K. Attenkofer, T. Rao, S.G. Schubert, J. Smedley, E. Wang, Q. Wu
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • I. Ben-Zvi, M. Ruiz-Osés
    Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
  • J. Jordan-Sweet
    IBM T. J. Watson Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA
  • H.A. Padmore, J.J. Wong
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work is supported at BNL by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DEAC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. DOE. The work at Stony Brook is supported by the US DOE under grant DE-SC0005713.
Multialikali antimonide cathodes provide high visible light quantum efficiency, with low thermal emittance and are excellent candidate materials for high average current next generation ERLs or high repetition rate FELs. Although these materials have some excellent characteristics, control of the growth mode of the thin film and ultimately the surface roughness is difficult and will effect the emittance that can be obtained in high gradient fields. To complement our growth studies of crystalline phases using x-ray diffraction studies, here we use the technique of grazing incidence small angle x-ray scattering (GI-SAXS) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) to measure the roughness as a function of film thickness. In this study, we demonstrate these techniques as applied to the growth of Sb, for a range of thicknesses, temperatures and growth rates, and show the wide range of moprphologies that can be formed with relatively minor changes in deposition conditions.