No enhanced electron emission from high-density atomic collision cascades in metals

Ion-induced secondary electron emission was studied for vanadium and niobium cluster ions at incident energies between 12.5 and 25 keV. The number of electrons ejected per incident atomic particle was found to be solely a function of the velocity, being independent of the number of atoms in the cluster. In spite of the extremely high energy densities created by cluster ion impact, there is no enhanced electron emission from collision spikes. This is discussed in terms of energy coupling between the system of lattice atoms and that of the electrons in the solid.     

Low-energy X-ray standards from hydrogenlike pionic atoms

We demonstrate the first step of a complete program, which consists in establishing an x-ray energy standard scale with the use of few-body atoms, in the few keV range. Light pionic and muonic atoms as well as one and two-electron ions from electron-cyclotron ion sources are used. The transition energies are calculable from quantum-electrodynamics, meaning that only a very limited subset need be measured and compared with theory, while providing a large number of standard lines. Here we show that circular transitions in pionic neon atoms, completely stripped from their electrons, reveal spectral lines which are narrow, symmetric, and well reproducible. We use these lines for the energy determination of transition energies in complex electronic systems, like the Kalpha(1,2) transitions in metallic Ti, which may serve as secondary standard.     

Surface analysis by ion-electron spectroscopy; Silicon target

The energy spectra of secondary elections emitted from a Si(111) surface due to bombardment by 6 keV He⁺ and O⁺₂ ions have been examined. The fine structure in the spectra is explained on the basis of a novel mechanism of creation of Auger electrons at the surface. There are two stages of interaction between incoming ions and the substrate via adsorbed atoms. In the first stage, due to a level promotion mechanism, vacancies in the adsorbed atoms are created. In the second stage, Auger neutralization processes accompanied by the emission of electrons from a solid with characteristic energies take place. These electrons provide a good indication of the degree of coverage of the silicon surface with contaminant atoms. The energy losses of escaping electrons are also discussed.     

Deceleration and acceleration of fast electrons in a dense gas in an electric field

The propagation of electrons in a gas at energies higher than the excitation energy of the K shell of the gas atoms is simulated numerically. Calculations show that, without a field, the penetration depth of the electrons into a gas heavier than nitrogen is limited primarily by their elastic collisions with atomic nuclei. For electrons moving in an electric field, the effect of elastic collisions is that there is no definite electric field strength above which an electron with a given energy will be continuously accelerated. Even in an electric field much stronger than the critical one, only a fraction of electrons are accelerated. The remaining electrons turn back due to elastic collisions and lose their energy in deceleration by the field. In this case, the propagation velocity of the centroid of the electrons tends to a constant value.     

碱土金属原子与Ne原子间相互作用势的理论计算

本文基于无任何可调参数的势模型计算了碱土金属原子(Be、Mg、Ca、Sr、Ba)与Ne原子间相互作用势,得到的势能曲线及势阱位置和深度与现有的从头计算结果符合较好.本文的计算结果进一步验证了碱土金属原子与稀有气体原子间交换能主要来自碱土金属原子最外层s电子与稀有气体原子最外层p电子之间的交换作用.     

Ion-induced secondary electron and negative ion emission from Mo/O

Absolute yields of secondary electrons and negative ions resulting from collisions of Na⁺ with Mo(100) and a polycrystalline molybdenum surface have been measured as a function of the oxygen coverage of the surface for impact energies below 500 eV. The sputtered negative ions have been identified with mass spectroscopy, and O⁻ is found to be the dominant sputtered negative ion for the surfaces at all oxygen coverages and impact energies. Both the electron and O⁻ yields have an impact energy threshold at about 50 eV and exhibit a strong dependence on oxygen coverage. The kinetic energy distributions of the secondary electrons and sputtered O⁻ were determined as functions of the oxygen coverage and impact energy. The distributions for O⁻ are characterized by a narrow low-energy peak (at 1–2 eV) followed by a low-level high-energy tail. The secondary electrons have a narrow (FWHM 1–2 eV) kinetic energy distribution, centered approximately at 1–2 eV. The shapes of the distributions and their most probable energies are essentially invariant with impact energy, oxygen coverage and the nature of the Mo surface. The emission is explained and analyzed in terms of a simple model which involves a collision-induced electronic excitation of the MoO⁻ surface state. The decay of this excited state leads to the production of both secondary electrons and O⁻ with energy distributions and yields comparable to those observed.     

Characteristic energy gain and loss,double ionization,and ionization loss events in Be and BeO secondary electron spectra

Two satellite peaks have been observed on the high energy side of the Be KVV Auger peak. The lower energy satellite is attributed to coupling of energy from bulk plasmon de-excitations with Auger electrons, and the higher energy event to Auger electrons ejected from Be atoms with doubly ionized K levels. Following oxidation, the ionization loss spectra of BeO were observed to have structure which is interpreted as being related to the density of unfilled electron states above the BeO valence band. In addition, the characteristic loss and the low energy (“true secondary”) spectra of Be and BeO were determined. Peaks in these spectra are discussed in terms of characteristic energies related to excited electron states in the solids.     

Plasma losses of electron energy and secondary electrons of discrete energies in aluminum

Discrete energy' loss is examined for electrons of energy 30–116 V. The losses due to excitation of three types of plasma wave are found; these plasmons have energies of 15.5, 9.5, and 7 eV. The energy distribution curves for the secondary electrons contain groups with discrete energies, which in aluminum coincide with the plasma energies, and so arise by decomposition of plasmons.     

Substitution effects on the hydrogen storage behavior of AB2 alloys by first principles

The hydrogen storage behavior of the TiCr₂ and ZrCr₂ alloys substituted with the third components (Zr, V, Fe, Ni) have been studied using first-principles calculations. The change of the hydrogen absorption energies caused by metal doping is arising from the charge transfer among the doped alloys interior. Zr and V atoms devoted abundant electrons, leading to a great enhancement of the H absorption energy, while Fe and Ni atoms always accepted electrons, yielding a remarkable decrease of the H absorption energy. The hydrogen diffusion energy barrier is closely correlated with the geometry effect rather than the electronic structure.     

Investigation of the Au16 fullerene in the Hubbard model

The anticommutator Green’s functions, the thermodynamic averages characterizing the possibility of hopping electrons from site to site, the correlation functions describing the probability of occupation of one site by two electrons in a nanosystem, the ground-state energy for a closed atomic structure consisting of sixteen gold atoms, the ionization energies, and the electron affinities are calculated within the static-fluctuation approximation of the Hubbard model.     

First-principles study of electronic properties of interfacial atoms in metal-metal contact electrification

The mechanism of contact electrification between metals was studied using the first-principles method, taking the Ag-Fe contact as an example. Charge population, charge density difference, the orbitals and densities of states (DOS) were calculated to study the electronic properties of the contacting interfacial atoms. Based on the calculation, the amount of contact charge was obtained. The investigation revealed that the electrons near Fermi levels with higher energies transfer between the outermost orbitals (s orbitals for Ag and d orbitals for Fe). Meanwhile, polarized covalent bonds form between the d electrons in the deep energy states. These two effects together lead to an increase of charge magnitude at the interface. Also, the electrons responsible for electrification can be determined by their energies and orbitals.     

Radial dose distribution from carbon ion incident on liquid water

We report calculations of the radial dose deposited along carbon-ion tracks in liquid water using different techniques depending on the energy range of secondary electrons. The models are developed in relation with the experimental data on electron penetration lengths. For electrons with energies higher than 45 eV, we use the Katz model. However, the main focus is on the low-energy electrons, which are largely responsible for DNA damage within 10 nm from the tracks. For these electrons, the dose calculation is based on their random walk behaviour. The results of this combined approach are compared to experimental measurements. Contributions to the deposited energy by electrons of different ranges of energy are discussed.     

Auger kinetic energies and electronic relaxation phenomena in atoms and solids

A semi-empirical theory has been developed to calculate the kinetic energy of Auger electrons resulting from radiationless transitions in both free atoms and metals. Experimental electron binding energies and calculated two-electron interaction and relaxation energies are used. Relaxation energies are determined by means of hyper-Hartree—Fock hole-state calculations. To account for extra-atomic relaxation phenomena in metals, it is assumed that conductionband electrons occupy free-atom-like screening orbitais. The relationship of the present theory to recent work of Shirley et al., Larkins, Kim et al. and Watson et al. is discussed. The dependence of the Auger cross-relaxation energy on the ionicity of compounds is briefly discussed.     

Low-energy electron transmission through dielectric capillaries

Transmission of electrons with energies from 2 to 10 keV through glass polycapillaries, tubes, and cones was experimentally studied. The dependence of the transmittance on the electron energy, beam current, capillary diameter, and irradiation time was measured. The electron transmittance through polycapillaries decreases with the beam current and measurement time. The results of measurements of the electron and X-ray spectrum at the quartz tube output suggest that a fraction of electrons incident on the wall charge it and ionize wall atoms; other electrons pass through the channel without collision with the wall, since their energy is almost unchanged. It follows from the measurement results that the electron transmission through capillaries is controlled by the potential at the inner channel surface induced by the charge injected during irradiation.     

Energy distribution functions and concentration of the electrons in a discharge with an uncooled hollow cathode

Conclusions The introduction of Na and Cu atoms into the cavity of an uncooled carbon cathode has a considerable effect on the form of the electron energy-distribution functions, but little on the electron concentration.The addition of Na atoms reduces the number of electrons with energies lying close to the excitation energies of the optically-allowed transitions of the Na atoms, and also more energetic electrons; there is a considerable increase in the group of slow electrons. The same holds for a carbon cathode in the presence of Cu atoms, except for the range 5–10 eV. The redistribution of the electron concentration, in the sense of an increase in the proportion of slow electrons, evidently results from an increase in the total effective scattering cross section of the electrons in the presence of metal atoms.The nonmonotonic character of the distribution functions for a carbon cathode in the presence of Cu atoms in helium indicates that, under the conditions of a hollow-cathode discharge (a large number of slow electrons and a high population of certain levels), inelastic collisions of the second kind between the electrons and the atoms may substantially alter the distribution function.The increase in the number of electrons in the slow group should improve recombination conditions. This may explain the fact that the entry of Na and Cu atoms into the discharge does not seriously alter the electron concentration.Translated from Izvestiya VUZ. Fizika. No. 5, pp. 157–160, May, 1971.     

Explicit designs of spin chains for perfect quantum state transfer

For the process of electron-electron (e-e) bremsstrahlung the momentum and energy distributions of the recoiling electrons are calculated in the laboratory frame. In order to get the differential cross section and the photon spectrum for target electrons which are bound to an atom, these formulae are multiplied by the incoherent scattering function and numerically integrated over the recoil energy. The effect of atomic binding is most pronounced at low energies of the incident electrons and for target atoms of high atomic numbers. The results are compared to those of previous calculations.     

Electron-stimulated desorption of lithium atoms from oxidized molybdenum surface

The yield and energy distributions of lithium atoms upon electron-stimulated desorption from lithium layers adsorbed on the molybdenum surface coated with an oxygen monolayer have been measured as functions of the impact electron energy and lithium coverage. The measurements are performed using the time-of-flight technique and a surface ionization detector. The threshold of the electron-stimulated desorption of lithium atoms is equal to 25 eV, which is close to the ionization energy of the O 2s level. Above a threshold of 25 eV, the yield of lithium atoms linearly increases with an increase in the lithium coverage. In the coverage range from 0 to 0.45, an additional threshold is observed at an energy of 55 eV. This threshold can be associated with the ionization energy of the Li 1s level. At the electron energies above a threshold of 55 eV, as the coverage increases, the yield of lithium atoms passes through a maximum at a coverage of about 0.1. Additional thresholds for the electron-stimulated desorption of the lithium atoms are observed at electron energies of 40 and 70 eV for the coverages larger than 0.6 and 0.75, respectively. These thresholds correlate with the ionization energies of the Mo 4s and Mo 4p levels. Relatively broad peaks in the range of these thresholds indicate the resonance excitation of the bond and can be explained by the excitation of electrons toward the band of free states above the Fermi level. The mean kinetic energy of the lithium atoms is equal to several tenths of an electronvolt. At electron energies less than 55 eV, the energy distributions of lithium atoms involve one peak with a maximum at about 0.18 eV. For the lithium coverages less than 0.45 and electron energies higher than 55 eV, the second peak with a maximum at 0.25 eV appears in the energy distributions of the lithium atoms. The results obtained can be interpreted in the framework of the Auger-stimulated desorption model, in which the adsorbed lithium ions are neutralized after filling holes inside inner shells of the substrate and lithium atoms.     

Optimum conditions for pumping laser transitions of cadmium ions by various processes in a hollow-cathode discharge

The interaction of electrons of various energies with helium and cadmium atoms in a hollow-cathode discharge is analyzed. On the basis of the results of this analysis the conclusion is made that helium is ionized predominantly by electrons moving from the cathode wall to the cavity axis and having energies 70<ε<300 eV, whereas helium and cadmium are ionized predominantly by electrons with energies 9<ε<70 eV which move chaotically. For each of these energy ranges, the kinetic equation is solved and the electron energy distribution function (EDF) is determined, which is used for calculating pumping rates for laser transitions of cadmium ions. The conclusion is made that the rate of population of laser transitions through charge transfer is determined by electrons having a predominant direction of motion and an anisotropic EDF. The population rate associated with electron impact and the Penning ionization is determined by electrons moving chaotically and having an isotropic EDF. The analysis of the EDF made it possible to explain differences in discharge conditions (helium and cadmium pressures) providing optimum lasing for lines pumped by different processes. Radial profiles of pump rates obtained from the analysis made it possible to calculate and explain the dependence of the laser output power on the cathode diameter.     

A study of nitric oxide adsorbed on nickel oxide,cobalt oxide,and graphite by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

The nitrogen 1s binding energy of nitric oxide adsorbed on nickel oxide, cobalt oxide and graphite was measured at several temperatures by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. For the oxides, a temperature dependent range of binding energies was observed, but for graphite the nitrogen 1s binding energy was independent of temperature. The values obtained suggest that significant back donation of electrons occurs from the oxides to the adsorbed nitric oxides, but no back donation occurs from graphite to adsorbed nitric oxide. However, adsorption did not cause changes in the binding energy of substrate core electrons. It is believed that unless the mean free path of electrons is short, the total photoelectron signal will not reveal changes in binding energy of electrons from substrate atoms at the surface.