Compact, low power radio frequency cavity for femtosecond electron microscopy

A Lassise; P H A Mutsaers; O J Luiten

doi:10.1063/1.3703314

Compact, low power radio frequency cavity for femtosecond electron microscopy

Rev Sci Instrum. 2012 Apr;83(4):043705. doi: 10.1063/1.3703314.

Authors

A Lassise¹, P H A Mutsaers, O J Luiten

Affiliation

¹ Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

PMID: 22559537
DOI: 10.1063/1.3703314

Abstract

Reported here is the design, construction, and characterization of a small, power efficient, tunable dielectric filled cavity for the creation of femtosecond electron bunches in an existing electron microscope without the mandatory use of femtosecond lasers. A 3 GHz pillbox cavity operating in the TM(110) mode was specially designed for chopping the beam of a 30 keV scanning electron microscope. The dielectric material used is ZrTiO(4), chosen for the high relative permittivity (ε(r) = 37 at 10 GHz) and low loss tangent (tan δ = 2 × 10(-4)). This allows the cavity radius to be reduced by a factor of six, while the power consumption is reduced by an order of magnitude compared to a vacuum pillbox cavity. These features make this cavity ideal as a module for existing electron microscopes, and an alternative to femtosecond laser systems integrated with electron microscopes.