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WEPAB102	Half-Metal Spin Filter for Highly Polarized Emission from GaAs Photocathodes	2833
	S. Poddar, C.-J. Jing, E.J. Montgomery Euclid Beamlabs, Bolingbrook, USA P. Lukashev University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA C. Palmstrøm UCSB, Santa Barbara, California, USA M.L. Stutzman, S. Zhang JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
	Funding: Work supported by Department of Energy grant number DE-SC0020564. GaAs-based photocathodes are one of the major sources of spin-polarized electrons and are crucial for the upcoming Electron-Ion collider experiments which includes study of proton spin and spin parity violation in the standard model. The theoretical polarization limit in unstrained GaAs photocathodes is 50 % but only 35 % is routinely achieved in experiments. Spin selective filtering allows to boost the spin polarization beyond the 50 % theoretical limit. In this work, first-principle electronic calculations using standard Density Functional Theory are performed to predict possible Heusler alloy half-metal candidates to be used as spin-filter. Simulations are also performed to investigate the half-metallicity as function of the magnetic spin direction. Several devices are experimentally fabricated using dedicated Molecular Beam Epitaxy growth system. We implemented Quantum Efficiency and Polarization testing of these half-metal/GaAs heterostructures using a dedicated Mott polarimeter system. Photoemission can also be seen on magnetically switching the spin-filter direction accompanied by a change in sign of the asymmetry which is a qualitative proof of the spin-filtering effect.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB102
About •	paper received ※ 20 May 2021 paper accepted ※ 28 July 2021 issue date ※ 27 August 2021
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Half-Metal Spin Filter for Highly Polarized Emission from GaAs Photocathodes

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S. Poddar, C.-J. Jing, E.J. Montgomery
Euclid Beamlabs, Bolingbrook, USA
P. Lukashev
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA
C. Palmstrøm
UCSB, Santa Barbara, California, USA
M.L. Stutzman, S. Zhang
JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA

Funding: Work supported by Department of Energy grant number DE-SC0020564.
GaAs-based photocathodes are one of the major sources of spin-polarized electrons and are crucial for the upcoming Electron-Ion collider experiments which includes study of proton spin and spin parity violation in the standard model. The theoretical polarization limit in unstrained GaAs photocathodes is 50 % but only 35 % is routinely achieved in experiments. Spin selective filtering allows to boost the spin polarization beyond the 50 % theoretical limit. In this work, first-principle electronic calculations using standard Density Functional Theory are performed to predict possible Heusler alloy half-metal candidates to be used as spin-filter. Simulations are also performed to investigate the half-metallicity as function of the magnetic spin direction. Several devices are experimentally fabricated using dedicated Molecular Beam Epitaxy growth system. We implemented Quantum Efficiency and Polarization testing of these half-metal/GaAs heterostructures using a dedicated Mott polarimeter system. Photoemission can also be seen on magnetically switching the spin-filter direction accompanied by a change in sign of the asymmetry which is a qualitative proof of the spin-filtering effect.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB102

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paper received ※ 20 May 2021 paper accepted ※ 28 July 2021 issue date ※ 27 August 2021

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