Coulomb interactions in sharp tip pulsed photo field emitters
Author(s) -
B. Cook,
P. Kruit
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
applied physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 442
eISSN - 1077-3118
pISSN - 0003-6951
DOI - 10.1063/1.4963783
Subject(s) - coulomb , physics , electron , brightness , limiting , limit (mathematics) , atomic physics , pulse (music) , electric field , field (mathematics) , poisson distribution , energy (signal processing) , computational physics , optics , quantum mechanics , voltage , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , statistics , mathematics , engineering , pure mathematics
Photofield emitters show great potential for many single electron pulsed applications. However, for the brightest pulses > 10 11 A / (m 2 sr V), our simulations show that Poisson statistics and stochastic Coulomb interactions limit the brightness and increase the energy spread even with an average of a single electron per pulse. For the systems, we study we find that the energy spread is probably the limiting factor for most applications.
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