Author: Yamaguchi, H.
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WEPA66 Near-Threshold Photoemission from Graphene Coated Cu Single Crystals 776
 
  • C.J. Knill, S.S. Karkare
    Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
  • H. Ago, K. Kawahara
    Global Innovation Center, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan
  • E. Batista, N.A. Moody, G.X. Wang, H. Yamaguchi, P. Yang
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
 
  Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Award PHY-1549132, the Center for Bright Beams, and by the Department of Energy under Grant DE-SC0021092.
The bright­ness of elec­tron beams emit­ted from pho­to­cath­odes plays a key role in the per­for­mance of x-ray free elec­tron lasers (XFELs) and ul­tra­fast elec­tron dif­frac­tion (UED) ex­per­i­ments. In order to achieve the max­i­mum beam bright­ness, the elec­trons need to be emit­ted from pho­to­cath­odes with the small­est pos­si­ble mean trans­verse en­ergy (MTE). Re­cent stud­ies have looked at the ef­fect that a graphene coat­ing has on the quan­tum ef­fi­ciency (QE) of the cath­ode [1]. How­ever, there have not yet been any in­ves­ti­ga­tions into the ef­fect that a graphene coat­ing has on the MTE. Here we re­port on MTE and QE mea­sure­ments of a graphene coated Cu(110) sin­gle crys­tal cath­ode at room and cryo­genic tem­per­a­tures. At room tem­per­a­ture, a min­i­mum MTE of 25 meV was mea­sured at 295 nm. This MTE re­mained sta­ble at 25 meV over sev­eral days. At 77 K, the min­i­mum MTE of 9 meV was mea­sured at 290 nm. We per­form den­sity func­tional the­ory (DFT) cal­cu­la­tions to look at the ef­fects of a graphene coat­ing on a Cu(111) sur­face state. These cal­cu­la­tions show that the graphene coat­ing re­duces the ra­dius of the sur­face state, al­low­ing for emis­sion from a lower trans­verse en­ergy state in com­par­i­son to bare Cu(111).
[1] F. Liu et al, Appl. Phys. Lett. 110, 041607 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4974738
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-WEPA66  
About • Received ※ 28 July 2022 — Revised ※ 19 July 2022 — Accepted ※ 07 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 10 August 2022
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