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most citedIn situ Observation of Dark Current Emission in a High Gradient RF Photocathode Gun

23 citations · 127 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

physics.acc-ph2022

Evaluating Effects of Geometry and Material Composition on Production of Transversely Shaped Beams from Diamond Field Emission Array Cathodes

Mitchell E. Schneider, Heather Andrews, Sergey V. Baryshev +8

Field emission cathodes (FECs) are attractive for the next generation of injectors due to their ability to provide high current density bright beams with low intrinsic emittance. O…

physics.acc-ph2022

Advanced RF Structures for Wakefield Acceleration and High-Gradient Research

Xueying Lu, Jiahang Shao, John Power +28

Structure wakefield acceleration (SWFA) is one of the most promising AAC schemes in several recent strategic reports, including DOE's 2016 AAC Roadmap, report on the Advanced and N…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 20 cited

Demonstration of sub-GV/m Accelerating Field in a Photoemission Electron Gun Powered by Nanosecond -Band Radiofrequency Pulses

W. H. Tan, S. Antipov, D. S. Doran +11

Radiofrequency (RF) electron guns operating at high accelerating gradients offer a pathway to producing bright electron bunches. Such beams are expected to revolutionize many areas…

physics.acc-ph2022★ 6 cited

Continuous and Coordinated Efforts of Structure Wakefield Acceleration (SWFA) Development for an Energy Frontier Machine

Chunguang Jing, John Power, Jiahang Shao +14

Structure wakefield acceleration (SWFA) is well suited for the linear collider (LC) application due to its natural ability to accelerate positrons and preserve emittance. Under the…

physics.acc-ph2021★ 5 cited

Ampere-class Bright Field Emission Cathode Operated at 100 MV/m

Mitchell Schneider, Emily Jevarjian, Tanvi Nikhar +4

High current bright sources are needed to power the next generation of compact rf and microwave systems. A major requirement is that such a source could be sustainably operated at…

physics.acc-ph2020★ 3 cited

FEbeam: Cavity and Electron Emission Data Conversion, Processing and Analysis. A Freeware Toolkit for RF Injectors

Mitchell Schneider, Emily Jevarjian, Jiahang Shao +1

FEbeam is a compact field emission data processing interface with the capability to analyze the field emission cathode performance in an rf injector by extracting the field enhance…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 3 cited

Systematic benchmarking of planar nitrogen-incorporated ultrananocrystalline diamond field emission electron source: rf conditioning and beam spatio-temporal characteristics

Jiahang Shao, Mitchell Schneider, Gongxiaohui Chen +8

Planar nitrogen-incorporated ultrananocrystalline diamond, (N)UNCD, has emerged as a unique field emission source attractive for accelerator applications because of its capability…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 11 cited

Development and high-power testing of an X-band dielectric-loaded power extractor

Jiahang Shao, Chunguang Jing, Eric Wisniewski +5

Dielectric loaded structures are promising candidates for use in the structure wakefield acceleration (SWFA) technique, for both the collinear wakefield and the two-beam accelerati…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 8 cited

Rapid thermal emittance and quantum efficiency mapping of a cesium telluride cathode in an rf photoinjector using multiple laser beamlets

Lianmin Zheng, Jiahang Shao, Eric E. Wisniewski +8

Thermal emittance and quantum efficiency (QE) are key figures of merit of photocathodes, and their uniformity is critical to high-performance photoinjectors. Several QE mapping tec…

physics.acc-ph2019★ 15 cited

Experimental demonstration of the correction of coupled transverse dynamics aberration in an rf photoinjector

Lianmin Zheng, Jiahang Shao, Yingchao Du +9

The production of electron bunches with low transverse emittance approaches the thermal emittance of the photocathode as various aberrations are corrected. Recently, the coupled tr…

physics.optics2019★ 16 cited

Transition radiation in photonic topological crystals: quasi-resonant excitation of robust edge states by a moving charge

Yang Yu, Kueifu Lai, Jiahang Shao +7

We demonstrate, theoretically and experimentally, that a traveling electric charge passing from one photonic crystal into another generates edge waves -- electromagnetic modes with…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 17 cited

Overestimation of thermal emittance in solenoid scans due to coupled transverse motion

Lianmin Zheng, Jiahang Shao, Yingchao Du +9

The solenoid scan is a widely used method for the in-situ measurement of the thermal emittance in a photocathode gun. The popularity of this method is due to its simplicity and con…

physics.acc-ph2016★ 23 cited

In situ Observation of Dark Current Emission in a High Gradient RF Photocathode Gun

Jiahang Shao, Sergey P. Antipov, Sergey V. Baryshev +8

Undesirable electron field emission (a.k.a. dark current) in high gradient RF photocathode guns deteriorates the quality of photoemission current and limits the operational gradien…

physics.acc-ph2014

Planar Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Field Emitter in Accelerator RF Electron Injector: Performance Metrics

Sergey V. Baryshev, Sergey Antipov, Jiahang Shao +7

A case performance study of a planar field emission cathode (FEC) based on nitrogen-incorporated ultrananocrystalline diamond, (N)UNCD, was carried out in an RF 1.3 GHz electron gu…