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The Center for Bright Beams, A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Beam Production Team and Projects

Our Team:

Theme Leaders: Graduate Students: Post Docs:

Tomás Arias, Cornell

Vivek Anil, Cornell

Elena Echeverria, Cornell
Siddharth Karkare, ASU Sam Dong, U Florida

Mansoure Moeini Rizi, ASU

Oksana Chubenko, NIU

Azriel Finsterer, Cornell

Monika Yadav, UCLA

Daniel Franklin, NIU

David Garcia, UCLA
Senior Investigators:  Tariqul Hasan, NIU Affiliates:
Tomás Arias, Cornell Mariam Hasany, Cornell Daniele Filippetto, Berkeley Lab
Oksana Chubenko, NIU Alimohammad Kachwala, ASU Lena Kourkoutis, Cornell
Richard Hennig, U Florida Gerard Lawler, UCLA Dwayne Miller, Toronto U
Melissa Hines, Cornell

Samuel Levenson, Cornell

Andreas Schroeder, UIC
Siddharth Karkare, ASU

Joshua Mann, UCLA

Larry Wang, Clark Atlanta
Jared Maxson, Cornell Chad Pennington, Cornell
Pietro Musumeci, UCLA Tyler Chun Wai Wu, Cornell
James Rosenzweig, UCLA  Charles Zhang, Cornell
Kyle Shen, Cornell Amy Zhu, Cornell

PI / Postdoc or Grad Student   Project Titles:

  • Arias / Wu   Ab initio theory of many-body photoemission and of photomaterials
  • Chubenko / Hasan  Photocathodes under realistic accelerator conditions
  • Chubenko / Franklin   Monte Carlo modeling of photoemission from semiconductors
  • Hennig / Dong  Quantum machine learning for the synthesis of photocathodes by epitaxial growth
  • Hines / Finsterer / Hasany / Zhu   Air-stable, high performance photocathodes
  • Karkare / Rizi  Sub-100 nm sources and High field testing of Alkali-antimonide
  • Karkare / TBD   Photoemission and surface characterization of Alkali-antimonides
  • Karkare / Kachwala   Cathode characterization in PEEM
  • Maxson / Pennington   Optimizing alkali antimonides for high QE, low MTE performance in low and high field electron guns
  • Maxson / Zhang  MTE measurement of epitaxial alkali antimonides
  • Maxson / Levenson  Measurement of photocathode performance at high average current
  • Maxson / Echeverria  Molecular beam epitaxy growth and characterization of bialkali antimonides
  • Musemeci / Garcia   Testing of advanced photocathodes at UCLA Pegasus photoinjector
  • Rosenzweig / Yadav / Lawler / Mann    Extreme High Brightness Electron Source from Intense Laser Illumination of Nano-Blades
  • Shen / Anil   Atomically Ordered & Engineered Materials for Photocathodes