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TY - CONF AU - Andrews, H.L. AU - Choi, B.K. AU - Fleming, R.L. AU - Lewellen, J.W. AU - Nichols, K.E. AU - Shchegolkov, D.Y. AU - Simakov, E.I. ED - Bishofberger, Kip:Carlsten, Bruce (LANL, Los Alamos, NM, USA)[ORCID:0000-0001-5619-907X] ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Current Experimental Work with Diamond Field-Emitter Array Cathodes J2 - Proc. of FEL2017, Santa Fe, NM, USA, August 20-25, 2017 C1 - Santa Fe, NM, USA T2 - International Free Electron Laser Conference T3 - 38 LA - english AB - Diamond Field-Emitter Array (DFEA) cathodes are arrays of micron-scale diamond pyramids with nanometer-scale tips, thereby providing high emission currents with small emittance and energy spread. To date they have been demonstrated in a close-diode configuration, spaced only a few hundred microns from a solid anode, and have shown very promising results in terms of emittance, energy spread, and per-tip emission currents. We present recent results investigating DFEA performance in a large-gap configuration, such that the cathodes are a few millimeters from a solid anode, and show that performance is the same or better as the close-diode geometry previously studied. However, array performance is still limited by anode damage. We are redesigning our cathode test stand to overcome the inherent limitations of a solid anode, allow for transport of the emitted beam, and further explore real-world DFEA performance. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 450 EP - 453 KW - ion KW - cathode KW - experiment KW - electron KW - site DA - 2018/02 PY - 2018 SN - 978-3-95450-179-3 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-FEL2017-WEP015 UR - http://jacow.org/fel2017/papers/wep015.pdf ER -