Ultrafast electron diffraction: Visualizing dynamic states of matter

D Filippetto, P Musumeci, RK Li, BJ Siwick… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
Since the discovery of electron-wave duality, electron scattering instrumentation has
developed into a powerful array of techniques for revealing the atomic structure of matter …

Polarized laser-wakefield-accelerated kiloampere electron beams

M Wen, M Tamburini, CH Keitel - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
High-flux polarized particle beams are of critical importance for the investigation of spin-
dependent processes, such as in searches of physics beyond the standard model, as well …

Compact dc inverted insulator photogun with biased anode and alkali-antimonide photocathode

C Hernandez-Garcia, P Adderley, B Bullard… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2019 - APS
This contribution describes the latest milestones of a multiyear program to build and operate
a compact-300 kV dc high voltage photogun with inverted insulator geometry and alkali …

[HTML][HTML] Reduction of surface roughness emittance of Cs3Sb photocathodes grown via codeposition on single crystal substrates

A Galdi, J Balajka, WJI DeBenedetti, L Cultrera… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Alkali antimonide photocathodes are capable of generating high brightness electron beams
given their high quantum efficiency and low mean transverse energy (MTE). Increasing the …

Stable operation of a high-voltage high-current dc photoemission gun for the bunched beam electron cooler in RHIC

X Gu, Z Altinbas, S Badea, D Bruno, L Cannizzo… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2020 - APS
The Low Energy RHIC electron Cooling (LEReC) project at Brookhaven National Laboratory
recently demonstrated for the first time cooling of hadron bunches with radio-frequency (rf) …

[HTML][HTML] High voltage performance of a dc photoemission electron gun with centrifugal barrel-polished electrodes

C Hernandez-Garcia, D Bullard, F Hannon… - Review of Scientific …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The design and fabrication of electrodes for direct current (dc) high voltage photoemission
electron guns can significantly influence their performance, most notably in terms of …

A cryogenically cooled 200 kV DC photoemission electron gun for ultralow emittance photocathodes

G Gevorkyan, C Sarabia-Cardenas… - Review of Scientific …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Novel photocathode materials like ordered surfaces of single crystal metals, epitaxially
grown high quantum efficiency thin films, and topologically non-trivial materials with dirac …

[HTML][HTML] Measurement of the tradeoff between intrinsic emittance and quantum efficiency from a NaKSb photocathode near threshold

J Maxson, L Cultrera, C Gulliford, I Bazarov - Applied Physics Letters, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We measure the tradeoff between the quantum efficiency and intrinsic emittance from a
NaKSb photocathode at three increasing wavelengths (635, 650, and 690 nm) at or below …

A cryogenically cooled high voltage DC photoemission electron source

H Lee, X Liu, L Cultrera, B Dunham… - Review of Scientific …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Linear electron accelerators and their applications such as ultrafast electron diffraction
require compact high-brightness electron sources with high voltage and electric field at the …

Towards Construction of a Novel Nanometer-Resolution MeV-STEM for Imaging Thick Frozen Biological Samples

X Yang, L Wang, J Maxson, AC Bartnik, M Kaemingk… - Photonics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Driven by life-science applications, a mega-electron-volt Scanning Transmission Electron
Microscope (MeV-STEM) has been proposed here to image thick frozen biological samples …