Author: Hawkins, S.D.
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WEPA68 Record Quantum Efficiency from Superlattice Photocathode for Spin Polarized Electron Beam Production 784
 
  • J.P. Biswas, L. Cultrera, K. Kisslinger, W. Liu, J. Skarita, E. Wang
    BNL, Upton, New York, USA
  • S.D. Hawkins, J.F. Klem, S.R. Lee
    Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
 
  Funding: The work is supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract DESC0012704 with the U.S. DOE. SNL is managed and operated by NTESS under DOE NNSA contract DE-NA0003525.
Electron sources producing highly spin-polarized electron beams are currently possible only with photocathodes based on GaAs and other III-V semiconductors. GaAs/GaAsP superlattice (SL) photocathodes with a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) represent the state of the art for the production of spin-polarized electrons. We present results on a SL-DBR GaAs/GaAsP structure designed to leverage strain compensation to achieve simultaneously high QE and spin polarization. These photocathode structures were grown using molecular beam epitaxy and achieved quantum efficiencies exceeding 15% and electron spin polarization of about 75% when illuminated with near bandgap photon energies.
 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-WEPA68  
About • Received ※ 20 July 2022 — Revised ※ 02 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 07 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 10 August 2022
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