US3889143A - Photocathode manufacture - Google Patents

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US3889143A
US3889143A US418295A US41829573A US3889143A US 3889143 A US3889143 A US 3889143A US 418295 A US418295 A US 418295A US 41829573 A US41829573 A US 41829573A US 3889143 A US3889143 A US 3889143A
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  • a photocathode structure containing a photocathode material comprising a plate of single crystal gallium indium phosphide having major surfaces and relative proportions of gallium and indium such that the lattice parameter thereof is substantially the same as that of said photocathode material, and, an epitaxial layer of photocathode material located on a first said major surface of said crystal, the thickness of said layer of photocathode material being of the order of the diffusion length of electrons therein and at least part of a second said major surface of the gallium indium phosphide plate being substantially free from contact by solid material.
  • gallium arsenide photocathode of the transmission type-beef theorder of the diffusion length of electrons therein because, if their thickness were appreciably greater, electrons excited by the absorption of input radiation would not be able to diffuse to the emissive surface of the photocathode without substantial recombination occurring. In practice this means that the thickness of the layer must be only a few microns. Because a free-standing layer of gallium arsenide with this order of thickness would be extremely fragile, it is desirable to provide the layer on a substrate to give it mechanical strength. This subof gallium aluminium arsenide for this purpose. A layer,
  • gallium aluminium arsenide is first grown on a gallium arsenide crystal, after which a thin p-type layer of gallium arsenide is grown on the free surface of the gallium aluminium arsenide.
  • the original gallium arsenide crystal is finally completely removed to leave a thin layer of p-type gallium arsenide on gallium aluminium arsenide.
  • the invention provides a method of manufacturing a photocathode which includes a single crystal layer of photocathode material (which may be p-type gallium arsenide) the thickness of which is of the order of the diffusion length of elec-.
  • the material of the disc 5 has approximately equal atomic percentages (ideally 49 51%)of indium and gallium so that its lattice parameter is substantially the same as that of the gallium arsenide of layer 4.
  • the periphery of the disc 5 is supported by a circular frame 6 of gallium arsenide secured to'the envelope '1.
  • the free surface of layer 4 activated with caesium-oxygen in known manner and. faces and is adjacent a cathodeluminescent layer '7 provided on a transparent electrically conductive layer (not shown) on the opposite end wall of the envelope 1.
  • Supply conductors (not shown) contacting the frame 6 and the conductive layer under the layer '7 are sealed through the envelope wall 1 and serve to provide the layer 7 with a positive potential relative to the photocathode assembly 3 in operation, so that any electron image produced at the free surface of the layer 4 by an image in infra-red or visible radiation focussed thereon through the window 2 results in a corresponding luminescent image being produced by the layer 7, this being viewed through the end wall of the envelope 1.
  • the photocathode assembly 3 may be manufactured as follows:
  • a single crystal plate of gallium arsenide for example 500 um thick is polished and then has the plate 5 grown thereon by liquid epitaxy for example as described by Stringfellow in J. App. Phyqics 43 pages 3455-3460 (1972) or by vapour phase epitaxy for example by a method similar to that described by Nuese in Metallurgical Transactions 2 p. 789 et seq (March 1971).
  • thermodynamic considerations favour the actual growth of gallium indium phosphide with relative proportions of gallium and indium such as to give a substantially exact lattice match with the underlying gallium arsenide (and thus also with the gallium arsenide layer 4 to be subsequently deposited on the free surface of the phosphide).
  • the layer 4 of p-type gallium arsenide is then provided on the free surface of the plate 5 either by vapour epitaxy as described for example by Tietjen and Amick, in J. Electrochem. Soc. 113, page 724 (1966) or by liquid epitaxy as described, for example by Panish, Sumski and l-layashi in Metall. Trans. 2, pp. 795-801 (1971).
  • the resulting GaAs-GalnP-GaAs sandwich is then masked, for example with wax, except for the central region of the original gallium arsenide plate, and etched for example with H SO :H O :H O in the usual ratios, so that the central region of the original gallium arsenide plate is removed to leave the plate 5, layer 4 and frame 6 (the latter being formed by the remaining part of the original gallium arsenide plate).
  • the wax is dissolved and the layer 4 is then activated with caesium and oxygen, for example as described by Liu et al in Appl. Physics Letter 14 no. 9 pages 275 et seq (1969) and positioned adjacent the phosphor layer in the envelope 1.
  • gallium arsenide 4 and 6 may be replaced by gallium indium arsenide or indium arseno phosphide.
  • a photocathode structure containing a photocathode material comprising:
  • a plate of single crystal gallium indium phosphide having major surfaces and relative proportions of gallium and indium such that the lattice parameter thereof is substantially the same as that of said photocathode material
  • an epitaxial layer of photocathode material located on a first said major surface of said crystal, the thickness of said layer of photocathode material being of the order of the diffusion length of electrons therein and at least part of a second said major surface of the gallium indium phosphide plate being substantially free from contact by solid material.
  • An electron tube including a photocathode structure as claimed in claim 1.
  • a photocathode structure including gallium arsenide comprising:
  • a a plate of single crystal gallium indium phosphide having major surfaces and relative proportions of gallium and indium such that the lattice parameter thereof is substantially the same as that of gallium arsenide, and
  • an epitaxial layer of p-type gallium arsenide located on a first of said major surfaces, the thickness of said gallium arsenide layer being of the order of the diffusion length of electrons therein and at least part of a second of said major surfaces of said gallium indium phosphide plate being substantially free from solid material.

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US3995303A (en) * 1975-06-05 1976-11-30 Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated Growth and operation of a step-graded ternary III-V heterojunction p-n diode photodetector
US4233934A (en) * 1978-12-07 1980-11-18 General Electric Company Guard ring for TGZM processing
US4498225A (en) * 1981-05-06 1985-02-12 The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army Method of forming variable sensitivity transmission mode negative electron affinity photocathode
US5311044A (en) * 1992-06-02 1994-05-10 Advanced Photonix, Inc. Avalanche photomultiplier tube
WO1995002260A1 (en) * 1993-07-09 1995-01-19 The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York Vacuum ultraviolet light source utilizing rare gas scintillation amplification sustained by photon positive feedback
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