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REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Volume 83, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4732810
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory (Department of Energy) [LA-UR 11-04716]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (RBSP Mission)
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We have developed and demonstrated a versatile, compact electron source that can produce a mono-energetic electron beam up to 50 mm in diameter from 0.1 to 30 keV with an energy spread of <10 eV. By illuminating a metal cathode plate with a single near ultraviolet light emitting diode, a spatially uniform electron beam with 15% variation over 1 cm(2) can be generated. A uniform electric field in front of the cathode surface accelerates the electrons into a beam with an angular divergence of <1 degrees at 1 keV. The beam intensity can be controlled from 10 to 10(9) electrons cm(-2) s(-1). (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4732810]
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