Improved Microwave-discharge Source for uv Photoemission

Published

April 1, 1976

Author(s)

Theodore V. Vorburger, B Waclawski, D Sandstrom

Abstract

A microwave-discharge uv light source has been improved to yield significant photon fluxes at 26.9 and 40.81 eV. In order to optimize the 26.9-eV (NeII) and 40.81-eV (HeII) radiation, the discharge was operated at ~2.5 Pa (0.019 Torr) in an external constant magnetic field of ~0.070 T (700 G), which, together with the oscillating electric field of the cavity, produces electron cyclotron resonance. When the discharge conditions were optimized for production of 40.81-eV photons, features near the Fermi energy in the photoemission distribution from W(100) for 40.81-eV photons are approximately 6% as intense as the corresponding features in the distribution for 21.22-eV photons. We estimate that under these conditions the flux of 40.81-eV photons is roughly 50% of the flux of 21.22-eV photons. Photoemission energy distributions with hv = 16.85, 21.22, 26.9, and 40.81 eV have been measured for saturated exposures of CO on W(100) at a temperature of ~80 K. The variation in these data with photon energy is important for making orbital assignments to the energy levels of adsorbed molecular CO.

Citation

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volume

47

Issue

4

Pub Type

Journals

Citation

Vorburger, T. , Waclawski, B. and Sandstrom, D. (1976), Improved Microwave-discharge Source for uv Photoemission, Review of Scientific Instruments (Accessed October 22, 2025)