Abstract:
Photoemitters are used to convert received photons of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into electrons, and it is common to employ an electron multiplier to amplify the low electron flux for use by an imaging or a counting system. Interest has been shown in semiconductor photoemitter and electron multiplier devices based on "mixtures" of the Group III and Group V elements gallium and arsenic or phosphorus, but these are not easy to use in a photoelectric tube. In transmissive mode these III-V materials have high sensitivity to infrared (IR), but have much poorer sensitivity to blue and ultraviolet. Now, it turns out that the III-IV materials are more blue-sensitive in reflective mode. Moreover, in this mode they are good as electron multipliers. The problem is to provide a device operating in this reflective mode with good imaging capability (the ejected electrons scatter). The present invention seeks to solve this by providing a III-V photoemitter structure where, though the photoemissive material is operating in blue-sensitive reflective mode, the device itself is operating in image-retaining transmissive mode. More specifically, the invention proposes that the III-V photoemitter layer (11) be in the form of an array of spaced III-V elements (13) the front faces of which are angled towards the gaps between the elements. Electrons (e-) ejected from the elements' front faces (by impacting photons or electrons) will, under the influence of an appropriate electrical field (E), be swept laterally towards and then through the spaces between the elements, so that though the III-V material is acting in reflective mode, and so has good blue sensitivity, the device itself is acting in transmissive mode, and so has good imaging properties. To form a photocathode/photomultiplier device a plurality of these individual III-V layers may be stacked one above the next, with the elements of each succeeding layer aligned with the gaps in the preceding layer, so that electrons ejected from each layer and passing through the gaps will impact the next adjacent layer without losing their image-defining spatial resolution.
Abstract:
A photomultiplier having a fine structure for realizing high multiplication efficiency. The photomultiplier comprises an enclosure the inside of which is maintained in a vacuum state. In the enclosure, a photoelectric surface for emitting photoelectrons in response to the incident light, an electron multiplying section for cascade-multiplying photoelectrons emitted from the photoelectric surface, and an anode for extracting secondary electrons produced by the electron multiplying section are provided. Especially a groove section for cascade-multiplying the photoelectrons from the photoelectric surface is formed in the electron multiplying section. On the surfaces of a pair of wall portions (311) defining the groove section, one or more projecting portions (311a) having secondary electron emitting surface are provided.
Abstract:
A photomultiplier tube includes: a cathode (3) for emitting electrons by the incident light; a plurality of stages of dynode (107) for multiplying the electrons emitted from the cathode (3); and an electronic lens formation electrode (115) arranged at a predetermined position with respect to the edge of a first dynode (107a) located at the first stage from the cathode (3) and the edge of the second dynode (107b) located at the second stage from the cathode (3) and flattening the equipotential surface in the space between the first dynode (107a) and the second dynode (107b) in the longitudinal direction of the first dynode (107a). With this configuration, it is possible to improve the time resolution for the incident light.
Abstract:
A semiconductor photoelectric surface comprises a support substrate (10), a photoelectric surface (30) which is formed by forming multiple semiconductor layers on the support substrate (10), and emits photoelectrons from a photoelectron emitting surface (341) in response to an incident beam for detection, and a film metal electrode (35) which is formed into a film so as to cover at least partially the support substrate (10) and partially the photoelectric surface (30) and is in ohmic contact with the photoelectric surface. The film metal electrode (35) contains titanium. The photoelectron emitting surface (341) which is not covered with the film metal electrode (35) and is an exposed surface of the photoelectric surface (30) has a negative electron affinity.
Abstract:
A polycrystalline diamond thin film which has an average particle size of at least 1.5 mu m and a peak intensity in the vicinity of wavelength of 1580 cm in a Raman spectrum obtained by a Raman spectroscopy having a ratio of up to 0.2 with respect to a peak intensity in the vicinity of wave number of 1335 cm . A photocathode (2) and an electron tube (1) are each provided with the above polycrystalline diamond thin film as a light absorbing layer (22).
Abstract:
A photoelectric emission surface which is excellent in stability and reproducibility of photoelectric conversion characteristics and has a structure capable of obtaining a high photosensitivity is provided. A predetermined voltage is applied between an upper surface electrode (15) and a lower surface electrode (17) by a battery (18). Upon application of this voltage, a p-n junction formed between a contact layer (14) and an electron emission layer (13) is reversely biased. A depletion layer extends from the p-n junction into the photoelectric emission surface, and an electric field is formed in the electron emission layer and a light absorbing layer (12) in a direction for accelerating photoelectrons. When incident light is absorbed in the light absorbing layer into excite photoelectrons, the photoelectrons are accelerated by the electric field toward the emission surface. The photoelectrons obtain an energy upon this electric field acceleration, and are transited, in the electron emission layer, to a conduction band at a higher energy level, and emitted into a vacuum.
Abstract:
Détecteur de particules, issues notamment d'une source pulsée (25), principalement très peu ionisantes. Les particules (14) créent une émission d'électrons secondaires (15) en passant à travers une couche très mince de CsI poreux (20) ; des dispositifs multiplicateurs (2, 6) sont prévus. La capacité émissive du CsI poreux est maintenue en inversant par un commutateur (13) le champ électrique appliqué à cette couche par deux électrodes (19, 21), notamment entre deux paquets de particules.
Abstract:
A transmission mode photocathode 2 comprises: an optically transparent substrate 4 having an outside face 4a to which light is incident, and an inside face 4b from which the light incident to the outside face 4a side is output; a photoelectric conversion layer 5 disposed on the inside face 4b side of the optically transparent substrate 4 and configured to convert the light output from the inside face 4b into a photoelectron or photoelectrons; and an optically-transparent electroconductive layer 6 comprising graphene, and disposed between the optically transparent substrate 4 and the photoelectric conversion layer 5.