Waves due to surface charges in a metal

The question of the role of waves due to surface charges in the propagation of electromagnetic waves along a metallic cylinder is considered. The possibility of the existence of two types of waves due to surface charges caused by free and bound electrons is demonstrated. It is established that there is a continuous transition from plasma surface waves to Sommerfeld waves and dipole surface waves. A more systematic theory of the boundary value problem is put forth which accounts for the complete system of boundary conditions and the new degrees of freedom related to the waves due to surface charges.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 98–104, April, 1978.     

Graphene sensing an inhomogeneous strain due to the surface relief in FeNiCoTi shape memory alloy

In this paper, we present a novel method of using graphene for sensing the inhomogeneous strain due to the surface relief in FeNiCoTi shape memory alloy. In the experiment, a large sheet of graphene fabricated by chemical vapor deposition was transferred onto the FeNiCoTi substrate. The flat surface of the substrate would become wrinkled due to the surface relief formed during the FeNiCoTi substrate phase transformation, meanwhile loading a tensile strain on the surface graphene. It is found that the 2D Raman peak of graphene demonstrates a significant red shift due to the tensile strain. The different colors exhibited in the Raman mapping image of the graphene directly displayed the strain distribution information across the surface. In the future, we may alter to quantitatively analyze the surface relief by using Raman spectroscopy instead of the atomic force microscopy. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Giant spin splitting through surface alloying

The long-range ordered surface alloy Bi/Ag(111) is found to exhibit a giant spin splitting of its surface electronic structure due to spin-orbit coupling, as is determined by angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. First-principles electronic structure calculations fully confirm the experimental findings. The effect is brought about by a strong in-plane gradient of the crystal potential in the surface layer, in interplay with the structural asymmetry due to the surface-potential barrier. As a result, the spin polarization of the surface states is considerably rotated out of the surface plane.     

Some effects of inhomogeneous strain on surface properties of metals: I. Flat surface

Jelium model calculations using the many electron formalism and a parameterized charge density distribution have been used to evaluate the change in surface energy, barrier height and work function due to the presence of a tensile and compressive strain gradient at the surface of Cs, Rb, K and Na. The method is useful for short range strain fields (? 4–5 atom spacings), but not for larger fields. The surface energy change due to inhomogeneous strain is almost twice as large as that due to homogeneous strain. The work function changes due to inhomogeneous strain are ~10–10² times larger than those due to homogeneous strains. The results are of considerable importance to general fracture and stress corrosion cracking studies.     

Laser-induced thermal stresses on steel surface

In laser heat treatment of steels, a thin surface layer of austenite forms during heating and subsequent phase change process in the cooling period. However, thermal stress develops due to high-temperature gradient attainment in the surface vicinity which in turn results in microcrack development at the surface. The present study is carried out to compute the temperature profiles due to step input pulse laser radiation and determine the resulting thermal stresses. The study is extended to include three-step input pulses having the same energy content. This provides the comparison for the influence of the pulse length on the resulting thermal stresses. To validate the theoretical predictions, an experiment is conducted to irradiate the AISI 4142 steel surface by an Nd–YAG laser. Microphotography and EDS analysis of the heated regions are carried out. It is found that considerable thermal stress is eveloped at the workpiece surface due to attainment of high-temperature gradient in this region. In addition, microcracks are observed at the surface of the irradiated spot.     

Dispersion and damping of a surface plasmon polariton on a one-dimensional randomly rough metal surface

Abstract

By the use of the reduced Rayleigh equation for the amplitude of a surface plasmon polariton on a one-dimensional randomly rough metal surface that is in contact with vacuum, we calculate the dispersion and damping of the surface electromagnetic wave to the lowest nonzero order in the rms height of the surface. It is found that the frequency of the surface plasmon polariton is depressed by the surface roughness. The attenuation of the surface plasmon polariton in the long wavelength limit is due primarily to its scattering into other surface plasmon polaritons, while in the short wavelength limit it is due primarily to its roughness-induced scattering into volume electromagnetic waves in the vacuum. The energy mean free path of the surface plasmon polariton is shorter on a randomly rough metal surface than it is on a lossy planar metal surface, and the surface plasmon polariton is more tightly bound to a rough surface than to a planar one.     

Laser controlled melting of pre-treated zirconia surface

Laser treatment of pre-prepared zirconia surface is carried out. The pre-prepared surface, prior to laser treatment, consists of 50 μm carbon film and 7% titanium carbide particles, which are imbedded in the carbon film. The microstructural and morphological changes in the laser treated surface layer are examined using optical and scanning electron microscopes, energy dispersive spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction. The fracture toughness of the laser treated surface is measured and the residual stress formed at the surface vicinity is determined from the X-ray diffraction technique. It is found that the microhardness of the laser treated surface increased slightly due to the dense layer formed at the surface vicinity. However, the laser treatment process reduces the fracture toughness of the surface due to improved surface hardness and the residual stress formed in the surface vicinity.     

Electromagnetic effects in the Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering from a molecule at a liquid Hg surface

In a previous publication the image enhancement effect and the enhanced radiation due to near field excitation of surface roughness were calculated for a finite-size molecule above a metal described by a nonlocal dielectric relation [Phys. Rev. Letters 44 (1980) 1774]. When applied to a roughened Ag surface these calculations led to a predicted Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) gain of ~ 10³ due to each effect, yielding an overall gain ~ 10⁶, in agreement with experiment. Here these calculations are extended to the case of a liquid Hg surface, the roughness corresponding to thermally excited ripplons. The SERS gain due to image enhancement is reduced to ~ 10, due primarily to the ~ 24 times greater electron scattering rate in Hg over that in Ag. The roughness gain is reduced to ~ 2 at room temperature, due to the difference between the ripplon spectrum and that of the boss-like surface structures assumed for the solid surface. The predicted overall SERS gain for Hg is ~ 20, far less than reported in recent observations [R. Naanan et al., J. Phys. Chem. 84 (1980) 2692]. The discrepancy raises serious questions about the electromagnetic explanations of SERS.     

Behavior of a wetting phase near a solid boundary: vapor near a weakly attractive surface

Density profiles of a LJ vapor near a weakly attractive surface with long-range fluid wall potential was studied along the pore coexistence curve. There are two localized density maxima near the pore wall: the first one is caused by localization of the molecules in the minimum of the fluid-wall potential, and the second one reflects adsorption of molecules at the first layer at higher densities. In addition, a third, weak density maximum is observed close to the critical temperature due to the competition between the long-range attractive tail of the fluid-wall potential and the effect of missing neighbors. This maximum separates the region of a gradual density depletion toward the surface due to the missing neighbor effect and the adsorption region further from the surface, where the density gradually increases toward the surface due to the attractive fluid-wall potential. When approaching the bulk critical temperature, this maximum moves away from the surface due to the divergence of the bulk correlation length. Applicability of various equations to describe the vapor density profiles is examined. Excess adsorption of vapor at low temperatures turns into excess depletion at higher temperatures. The crossover temperature increases with increasing pore size and strengthening fluid-wall interaction. The problems of the theory of the surface critical behavior of Ising models in a case of a non vanishing surface field and its mapping on a fluid is discussed.     

Generation of surface electrons in femtosecond laser-solid interactions

The characteristics of hot electrons produced by p-polarized femtosecond laser-solid interactions are studied. The experimental results show that the outgoing electrons are mainly emitted in three directions: along the target surface, the normal direction and the laser backward direction. The electrons flowing along the target surface are due to the confinement of the electrostatic field and the surface magnetic field, while the electrons in the normal direction due to the resonant absorption.     

Roughness and surface potential in physisorption

The surface potential due to physical adsorption of xenon on iron, copper and sodium films has been investigated as a function of annealing temperature using the diode method. As iron and copper films are annealed, the surface potential falls to low values. On sodium films the surface potential is always zero despite finite uptakes of xenon. The falling surface potentials on iron and copper may be due to contamination, changes in the crystal plane exposure of the film, a rise in the metallic work function, or variations in the roughness of the surface. Surface roughness appears to be the vital factor, smoother films giving lower surface potentials because they lack the electric field enhancement which occurs on rough surfaces.     

Charge‐Induced Shifts in Chiral Surface Plasmon Modes in Gold Nanorod Assemblies

A detailed investigation of the effect of electron injection on the chiral plasmon modes of helical nanorod assemblies is presented. An increased surface plasmon frequency of the electron gas due to the addition of electrons leads to a blue‐shift in the corresponding chiral surface plasmon modes. The mechanism behind the shift in plasmonic chirality due to nanorod charging is investigated using theoretical simulations. Charging of the nanorods alters the surface electron density, thereby modifying the plasma frequency and causing a change in the dielectric function. The nature of the plasmon shift and the intensity of chiral surface plasmons are found to be largely dependent on the extent of electron addition. At extended periods of time, the blue shifted band slowly shifts back toward the red, due to transfer of electrons back to the medium, leading to discharging of the nanorods.     

Level Statistics Crossover of Chiral Surface States in a Three-Dimensional Quantum Hall System

Recent experiments have demonstrated the realization of the three-dimensional quantum Hall effect in highly anisotropic crystalline materials, such as ZrTe|_5 and BaMnSb_2. Such a system supports chiral surface states in the presence of a strong magnetic field, which exhibit a one-dimensional metal-insulator crossover due to suppression of surface diffusion by disorder potential. We study the nontrivial surface states in a lattice model and find a wide crossover of the level-spacing distribution through a semi-Poisson distribution. We also discover a nonmonotonic evolution of the level statistics due to the disorder-induced mixture of surface and bulk states.     

Dephasing times in a nondegenerate two-dimensional electron Gas

Studies of weak localization by scattering from vapor atoms for electrons on a liquid helium surface are reported. There are three contributions to the dephasing time. Dephasing by the motion of vapor atoms perpendicular to the surface is studied by varying the holding field to change the characteristic width of the electron layer at the surface. A change in vapor density alters the quasielastic scattering length and the contribution to dephasing due to the motion of atoms both perpendicular and parallel to the surface. Dephasing due to the electron-electron interaction is dependent on the electron density.     

涌浪条件下的浅海表面声道脉冲声传播*

在冬季,海水表面受到海面强风的影响,普遍存在表面声道。当声源位于表面声道中并且声源频率高于表面声道的截止频率时,声能量几乎被完全限制其中,不与海底作用,十分有利于声传播。但当表面声道上边界为较大涌浪所形成的粗糙界面时,这种优良性能会被破坏。在南海北部陆坡海区的一次冬季实验中,发现表面声道以下水听器接收到的首个脉冲的幅度明显增加,通过研究表明,其原因是：存在较大涌浪时,部分表面声道内传播的声能量,经粗糙海面反射作用后进入下层水体中,使得位于表面声道以下的水听器的第一个到达的脉冲幅度增强。     

XPS studies of ion bombardment damage of iron—sulfur compounds

Chemical reduction on the surface of iron—sulfur compounds due to ion bombardment has been studied by photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS or ESCA). In addition to the “chemical” nature of surface reduction due to excitations and interactions of valence electrons, radiation-induced changes may also involve such factors as ion—surface chemical interactions and the volatilities of the components. Specifically, the data suggest that after ion bombardment, the reduced metallic iron co-exists with the relatively non-volatile elemental sulfur on the surface, in contrast to the loss of the volatile anion components from halogen and oxygen compounds.     

An adsorption mechanism underlying phase transformation in stabilized zirconia

Tetragonal-to-monoclinic martensite transformation due to water adsorption was found on the surface of both dispersed and ceramic oxide-stabilized zirconia. The transformation is due to local stretching strains arising in the lattice when the charge state of a stabilizer changes because of water molecules that are chemisorbed on the powder or ceramic surface.     

Highly ordered Ga nanodroplets on a GaAs surface formed by a focused ion beam

The morphological evolution of a GaAs surface induced by a focused ion beam (FIB) has been investigated by in situ electron microscopy. Under off-normal bombardment without sample rotation, Ga droplets with sizes from 70 to 25 nm in diameter on the GaAs surface can self-assemble into a highly ordered hexagonal pattern instead of Ostwald ripening or coalescence. The mechanism relies on a balance between anisotropic loss of atoms on the surface of droplets due to sputtering and an anisotropic supply of atoms on the substrate surface due to preferential sputtering of As. The ratio of wavelength to the droplet diameter predicted by this model is in excellent agreement with experimental observations.     

Energy loss and plasmon excitation during electron emission in the proximity of a solid surface

We study the interaction with bulk and surface modes of electrons emitted in the proximity of a solid surface. We analyze the modifications in the energy loss, and in bulk and surface plasmon excitations, taking into account the effects due to the sudden creation of the electron and residual atomic hole, and the finite distance to the surface. The process is described using the dielectric function formulation and the specular reflection model. We derive expressions for the electrostatic potential in the medium and in vacuum, which include all the terms due to bulk and surface modes. The effect of each term in the energy loss rate and in the average number of plasmon excitations is discussed. The results illustrate in detail the different spatial dependences of the electron and ion interactions with the bulk and surface perturbations, through the relevant range of distances for studies of electron emission in the proximity of solid surfaces.     

Surface modification of bulk n-InAs (111)A etched in bromine–methanol

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy, Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy were used to evaluate the surface properties of n-type InAs (111)A etched in a 1% Br–methanol solution. Etching completely removes the native oxides from the surface and enhances the photoluminescence response. The adsorption of bromine onto the InAs surface leads to the formation of In–Br_x and As–Br_x bonds (x = 1, 2, 3) as inferred from changes in the In 3d_3/2;5/2 and As 3d core level binding energies. The etch rate is found to decrease due to strong anisotropic effects and the high volatility of the bromine species. A 1 min Br–methanol etch was found to enhance the photoluminescence intensity by a factor of 3, probably due to a reduction in the surface state density upon de-oxidation of the surface. This is thought to be due to reductions in the surface state density. The presence of native oxides enhances both the surface accumulation layer and the surface state density.