Capacitive effect in ultrafast laser-induced emission from low conductance diamond nanotips

Autor: Olivier Torresin, Julien Mauchain, Mario Borz, Ivan Blum, Angela Vella, Benoit Chalopin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: New Journal of Physics, Vol 22, Iss 8, p 083055 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aba5bf
Popis: Single crystal diamond nanotips reveal a new behavior for ultrafast laser-induced electron emission. Under tightly focused femtosecond laser illumination, electron yield shows a saturation with the laser intensity. When the DC bias is sufficient for dark field emission, large optical intensities can switch off the emission occurring between laser pulses during a few hundred μ s, because of the low conductance of the diamond tip. We propose a macroscopic model to combine a capacitive effect with the different conduction and emission mechanisms. This study shows that non-metallic photocathodes offer different perspectives from the conventional metallic ones.
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