Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

High-energy electron emission from metallic nano-tips driven by intense single-cycle terahertz pulses

  • Sha Li,
  • R. R. Jones

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13405
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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High-energy electron sources are powerful tools for investigating dynamics at atomic and subatomic scales. Here, Li and Jones demonstrate the terahertz-driven emission of electrons with energies exceeding five kiloelectronvolts from nano-tips and study its dependence on the tip radius.