Quantum efficiency of cesium iodide photocathodes at soft x-ray and extreme ultraviolet wavelengths

We have measured the quantum efficiency for normal incidence radiation of microchannel plate detectors which use opaque or semitransparent photocathodes made of fluffy CsI, solid CsI, or both. At wavelengths below --44 A-circle, detectors with fluffy CsI semitransparant photocathodes are more efficient than those with opaque photocathodes of silid CsI, but the opposite is true at longer wavelengths. Fluffy CsI semitransparent photocathodes with surface densities between 150 and 400 μm/cm2 are optimum at soft x-ray wavelengths, and we have obtained efficiencies of 35 and 41% at 8 and 44A-circle, respectively, for a single-layer photocathode. The measured peak efficiency for an opaque layer of solid CsI, deposited at O0 coating angle and 5000 A-circle (226 →g/cm2) in thickness, is 56% at 110 A-circle