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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
In this work, yttrium (Y) thin films have been deposited on Si (100) substrates by the pulsed laser deposition technique. Ex-situ morphological, structural and optical characterisations of such films have been performed by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffractometry, atomic force microscopy and ellipsometry. Polycrystalline films with a thickness of 1.2 μm, homogenous with a root mean square roughness of about 2 nm, were obtained by optimised laser irradiation conditions. Despite the relatively high thickness, the films resulted very adherent to the substrates. The high quality of such thin films is important to the synthesis of metallic photocathodes based on Y thin film, which could be used as electron sources of high photoemission performance in radio-frequency guns.
Publisher: 
Elsevier
Publication date: 
31 Mar 2016
Authors: 

A Lorusso, M Anni, AP Caricato, F Gontad, A Perulli, A Taurino, A Perrone, E Chiadroni

Biblio References: 
Volume: 603 Pages: 441-445
Origin: 
Thin Solid Films