表面势垒形状对NEA光阴极电子能量分布的影响

通过计算电子到达阴极面时的能量分布和求解电子隧穿表面势垒的薛定谔方程得到了透射式NEA GaAs光阴极发射电子能量分布的计算公式.利用该公式仿真研究了阴极表面势垒形状对电子能量分布的影响,发现I势垒变化对阴极的量子效率影响显著,其中尤以I势垒宽度影响更大,而Ⅱ势垒则影响阴极的能量展宽,其中真空能级的升高可使阴极电子能量分布更集中,但却牺牲了一定的阴极量子效率.拟合分析了实验测试的透射式阴极电子能量分布曲线,实验与理论曲线吻合得很好,并得到了阴极的表面势垒参数.

Effect of Surface Potential Barrier on the Electron Energy Distribution of NEA Photocathodes

By calculating the energy distribution of electrons reaching the photocathode surface and solving the Schrodinger equation that describes the behavior of an electron tunneling through the surface potential barrier,we obtain an equation to calculate the emitted electron energy distribution of transmission-mode NEA GaAs photocathodes.Accord-ing to the equation,we study the effect of cathode surface potential barrier on the electron energy distribution and find a significant effect of the barrier-I thickness or end height,especially the thickness,on the quantum efficiency of the cath-ode.Barrier II has an effect on the electron energy spread,and an increase in the vacuum level will lead to a narrower electron energy spread while sacrificing a certain amount of cathode quantum efficiency.The equation is also used to fit the measured electron energy distribution curve of the transmission-mode cathode and the parameters of the surface barri-er are obtained from the fitting.The theoretical curve is in good agreement with the experimental curve.