Fabrication and Measurement of Cesiated Metal Photocathodes

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorO'Shea, Patrick G.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMoody, Nathan Andrewen_US
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2005-02-02T06:43:35Z
dc.date.available2005-02-02T06:43:35Z
dc.date.issued2004-11-30en_US
dc.description.abstractA requirement for accelerator applications such as free electron lasers is a high current, high quality electron beam. This is achieved using a photoinjector, where a drive laser modulates the electron emission of a cathode in an electric field. Current photocathodes are plagued with limited efficiency and short lifetime, due to contamination or evaporation of a photosensitive surface layer. An ideal photocathode would have high efficiency in the visible range, long lifetime, and prompt emission. Cathodes with high efficiency typically have limited lifetime, and vice versa. A potential solution is the dispenser cathode, where limited lifetime is overcome by periodic in situ regeneration that restores the photosensitive surface. This project prepares for fabrication of dispenser cathodes by studying properties of cesiated tungsten. A test facility was constructed and used to fabricate and test cesiated tungsten cathodes, whose behavior closely agreed with recently developed photoemission theory at the Naval Research Laboratory.en_US
dc.format.extent2299239 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/2091
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineering, Electronics and Electricalen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineering, Materials Scienceen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPhysics, Condensed Matteren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledphotocathodeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledworkfunctionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledquantum efficiencyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcesiumen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtungstenen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddispenser cathodeen_US
dc.titleFabrication and Measurement of Cesiated Metal Photocathodesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
umi-umd-2060.pdf
Size:
2.19 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

UMD Theses and Dissertations
Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses and Dissertations