Silicon photocathodes for dielectric laser accelerators
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Particle accelerators are powerful tools with numerous scientific, industrial, and medical applications. Broad adoption of these systems is limited by the size and cost of conventional RF accelerator technology. Dielectric laser accelerators (DLA) are a nascent technology for charged particle acceleration with applications ranging from compact light sources, ultrafast electron imaging, therapeutic radiation generation, and semiconductor processing. Taking advantage of mature semiconductor fabrication techniques, DLA devices consist of dielectric nanostructures that use intense electromagnetic fields from ultrafast laser pulses to accelerate particles at gradients more than an order of magnitude larger than those of conventional RF cavities. Of considerable importance is the generation of electron beams with sufficiently small emittance and duration such that they can be coupled into the narrow vacuum channels of the DLA and closely matched to the laser pulse length for efficient acceleration. In this dissertation, the development of such photocathode sources using silicon nanofabrication methods for use in the first full DLA system here at Stanford is discussed
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Ceballos, Andrew Charles |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Solgaard, Olav |
| Thesis advisor | Solgaard, Olav |
| Thesis advisor | Byer, R. L. (Robert L.), 1942- |
| Thesis advisor | Harris, J. S. (James Stewart), 1942- |
| Degree committee member | Byer, R. L. (Robert L.), 1942- |
| Degree committee member | Harris, J. S. (James Stewart), 1942- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Andrew Charles Ceballos |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019 |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2019 by Andrew Charles Ceballos
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