Author: Paul, J.T.
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WEPAB169 Towards Ultra-Smooth Alkali Antimonide Photocathode Epitaxy 3001
 
  • E.J. Montgomery
    Private Address, Bolingbrook, USA
  • O. Chubenko, G.S. Gevorkyan, S.S. Karkare, P. Saha
    Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
  • R.G. Hennig, J.T. Paul
    University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
  • C. Jing, S. Poddar
    Euclid Beamlabs, Bolingbrook, USA
  • H.A. Padmore
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under grant number DE-SC0020575.
Photocathodes lead in brightness among electron emitters, but transverse momenta are unavoidably nonzero. Ultra-low transverse emittance would enable brighter, higher energy x-ray free-electron lasers (FEL), improved colliders, and more coherent, detailed ultrafast electron diffraction/microscopy (UED/UEM). Although high quantum efficiency (QE) is desired to avoid laser-induced nonlinearities, the state-of-the-art is 100 pC bunches from copper, 0.4 mm-mrad emittance. Advances towards 0.1 mm-mrad require ultra-low emittance, high QE, cryo-compatible materials. We report efforts towards epitaxial growth of cesium antimonide on lattice matched substrates. DFT calculations were performed to downselect from a list of candidate lattice matches. Co-evaporations achieving >3% QE at 532 nm followed by atomic force and Kelvin probe microscopy (AFM and KPFM) show ultra-low 313 pm rms (root mean square) physical and 2.65 mV rms chemical roughness. We simulate roughness-induced mean transverse energy (MTE) to predict <1 meV from roughness effects at 10 MV/m in as-grown optically thick cathodes, promising low emittance via epitaxial growth.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB169  
About • paper received ※ 19 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 02 June 2021       issue date ※ 11 August 2021  
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