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Laser-induced asymmetric faceting and growth of nano-protrusion on a tungsten tip | | Hirofumi Yanagisawa
; Vahur Zadin
; Karsten Kunze
; Christian Hafner
; Alvo Aabloo
; Dong Eon Kim
; Matthias F. Kling
; Flyura Djurabekova
; Jürg Osterwalder
; Walter Wuensch
; | | Date: |
18 May 2016 | | Abstract: | Irradiation of a sharp tungsten tip by a femtosecond laser and exposed to a
strong DC electric field led to gradual and reproducible surface modifications.
By a combination of field emission microscopy and scanning electron microscopy,
we observed asymmetric surface faceting with sub-ten nanometer high steps. The
presence of well pronounced faceted features mainly on the laser-exposed side
implies that the surface modification was driven by a laser-induced transient
temperature rise -- on a scale of a couple of picoseconds -- in the tungsten
tip apex. Moreover, we identified the formation of a nano-tip a few nanometers
high located at one of the corners of a faceted plateau. The results of
simulations emulating the experimental conditions, are consistent with the
experimental observations. The presented conditions can be used as a new method
to fabricate nano-tips of few nm height, which can be used in coherent electron
pulses generation. Besides the direct practical application, the results also
provide insight into the microscopic mechanisms of light-matter interaction.
The apparent growth mechanism of the features may also help to explain the
origin of enhanced electron field emission, which leads to vacuum arcs, in high
electric-field devices such as radio-frequency particle accelerators. | | Source: | arXiv, 1605.5393 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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