Effect of collisional transitions on the population distributions of excited atoms in a plasma

The effect of collisional transitions on the population distribution of excited atoms has been studied by considering a plasma in which the electron density varies with time. It has been found that for highly excited states, for which the ionization rate is much larger than that of electron-density variations, the collisional transitions are not important compared with the collisional ionization and recombination processes. However, for intermediate and lower excited states, they play an important role in making the population distribution approach Saha equilibrium with the electrons.     

Terahertz field-induced modulations of intersubband absorptions in quantum wells

Nonlinear optical properties of intersubband electrons in a 3-level quantum well under intense terahertz field are investigated by using a density matrix approach. The results show that the terahertz fields with different frequencies cause the distinct modulations of the intersubband absorptions. The terahertz-induced sideband and Autler--Towns splitting in the absorption spectrum are obtained, respectively for the terahertz-photon energy below and close to the transition energy between the ground and first excited state.     

球壳量子点中极化子和量子比特的声子效应

采用求解能量本征方程、LLP幺正变换、变分相结合的方法研究 球壳量子点中极化子和量子比特的声子效应. 数值计算表明: 声子效应使极化子的基态(或激发态)能量小于电子的基态(或激发态)能量, 使量子比特的振荡周期减小, 且内径给定时, 随着外径的增大声子效应对极化子和量子比特振荡周期的影响越大; 声子效应不改变量子比特内电子概率密度分布的幅值, 量子比特内中心球面处概率密度幅值最大, 界面处概率密度为零, 其它处的概率密度幅值介于最大和最小之间, 且各个空间点的概率密度随半径和方位角的变化而变化, 随时间做周期性振荡.     

Attenuation length and escape depth of excited electrons in solids

Escape probability and mean escape depth λ_e of emitted electrons are determined as a function of attenuation length λ_a of excited electrons, their initial energy E_n, and the height of the surface barrier χ. A variable energy loss parameter permits to apply the proposed model to different kinds of electron emission, including the energy loss free Auger and ESCA electrons. An analytical expression was found correlating the internal energy distribution of excited electrons and the external energy distribution of emitted electrons. By means of this excitation energies of secondary electrons and exoelectrons were determined.     

直流大气压辉光放电高能电子密度的空间分布

利用针阴极和水阳极,在6 mm的空气隙产生了大气压空气辉光放电。该大气压辉光放电具有明显的负辉区、正柱区和阳极辉区等明亮的发光区。通过研究放电的电压电流特性,发现该放电处于亚辉光放电到正常辉光放电阶段。由于氮分子第二正带系337.1 nm的光谱强度反映高能电子密度,对337.1 nm谱线的强度进行了空间分辨测量。结果发现高能电子在针尖附近密度最大,而其他区域相差不多。随电压升高,高能电子密度减少。增大限流电阻,高能电子密度也减少。氧原子对杀菌消毒具有重要作用,利用发射光谱法对氧原子谱线强度的空间分布进行了测量,发现氧原子谱线强度与高能电子的空间分布及其随参数的变化关系一致。     

Influence of electron energy distribution on helium recombining plasma diagnostics using line emissions

The influence of electron energy distribution on helium recombining plasma diagnostics is investigated using a helium collisional‐radiative model. The population densities of excited helium atoms are calculated for Maxwellian and non‐Maxwellian distribution plasma cases. In the case of the Maxwellian distribution plasma, the electron temperature and electron density determined by the Boltzmann plot method agree well with the input plasma parameters. On the other hand, it is indicated that the electron temperature and electron density are significantly underestimated in the bi‐Maxwellian distribution plasma case, even though the density of the hot electron components is three orders smaller than that of the bulk electrons. This result indicates that in a non‐Maxwellian helium recombining plasma, evaluation of the particle balance based on line emissions from excited helium atoms would be difficult because the reaction rate of atomic and molecular processes is strongly dependent on the electron temperature and density.     

Non-Maxwellian Characteristics of the Energy Distribution of Thermal Electrons in the Upper Atmosphere

The Result of Measurements of the energy distribution of thermal electrons in a midlatitude ionosphere is presented. A comparison is made in particular between the characteristics at sunrise and sunset periods because of the effect of vibrationally excited nitrogen molecules. At sunrise the distribution has a little-irregularity but the middle and higher energy parts (0.2-0.5 eV) deviate from the Maxwellian distribution only slightly at all heights. The electron temperature varies from 900 K to 1300 K between 130 km and 300 km. These values are higher than the kinetic temperature of neutral particles but comparable with the theoretical values of the vibration temperature of N₂. At sunset small bumps due to non-thermal electrons are seen on the high energy tail between 108 and 160 km, their density being from 5 × 10^?3 to 1 × 10^?2 of that one of the thermal electrons. Above 170 km (F-layer) the deviation of the distribution from the Maxwellian one becomes smaller. The electron temperature varies from 500 K to 900 K between 100 km and 220 km. These values are higher than the kinetic temperature but lower than the theoretical values of the vibration temperature of N₂. A mechanism of the appearance of non-thermal electrons is considered to be due to super-elastic collisions with vibrationally excited N₂.     

Calculation of photoemission characteristics of cubic K3Sb

A three-step model of photoelectron emission is used to calculate the quantum efficiency and the energy distribution functions of emitted electrons with allowance for the scattering of the excited electrons leading to the production of electron-hole pairs. The calculated quantum efficiency is compared with experimental data in the visible part of the spectrum. The correlation between the structure of the photoemission characteristics and the density of the electron states is discussed.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 10, pp. 20–25, October, 1980.     

The Electron Relaxation to Stationary States in Collision Dominated Plasmas in Molecular Gases

The temporal collision dominated relaxation of electrons to new stationary states, starting from initial stationary states and due to jump-like changes of the electric field, was studied in the plasmas of the molecular gases N₂ and CO. Numerical solving of the time dependent Boltzmann equation for the electrons yields the temporal evolution of their energy distribution function and of resulting macroscopic quantities. The varying relaxation due to different values of the field strength in the final stationary state has been investigated considering the molecules of the plasma only as vibrationally non-excited and, in another case, including the additional impact of collisions with vibrationally excited molecules. The results obtained are discussed and, in particular, the relaxation times found for the transitions to the new stationary states are analysed on the basis of the energy transfer effectiveness by the collision processes. An approximative microphysical basis for the understanding of the main features of the relaxation in such complex molecular gas plasmas could be obtained.     

Theoretical study of X-ray photoelectron spectrum of germanium valence electrons

The density of states and X-ray photoelectron spectra of germanium valence electrons have been calculated. It is shown that to describe the shape of the photoelectron energy distribution curve of the greatest importance is precise allowance for the particularities of energy band structure and the ratio between excitation probabilities of s- and p-electrons. This is possible if the valence electron states are described with a linear combination of atomic orbitals while the excited electron states are described with the orthogonalized plane wave.     

Electronic band structure and distribution of excited electrons in the conduction band of anatase doped with boron, nitrogen, and carbon

A method for calculating the distribution of excited electrons in the conduction band of semiconductors has been proposed. This method takes into account both the excitation of electrons by means of an external light source and the transitions to the bottom of the conduction band due to the electron-phonon interaction. The interaction of electrons with the light field has been calculated from first principles in the dipole approximation using the linear muffin-tin orbital method. The electron-phonon interaction has been calculated in terms of the density functional perturbation theory. The method has been applied to the calculation of the quasi-steady-state distribution function of excited electrons in anatase doped with boron, nitrogen, and carbon. The correlations of the distribution function with the photocatalytic activity of doped anatase have been discussed.     

Monte Carlo方法研究低能电子束曝光沉积能分布规律

建立一个描述低能电子在多元多层介质中散射的物理模型,运用MonteCarlo方法模拟低能电子在靶体胶衬底中的复杂散射过程,在此基础上通过大量计算研究入射束能、胶层厚度、衬底材料等不同曝光条件对抗蚀剂沉积能密度分布的影响,获得沉积能分布规律:适量的低束能、薄胶层、低原子序数衬底可以使前散射电子对胶中沉积能密度分布的贡献增大、背散射电子的贡献减小,从而提高曝光分辨率. 关键词： 电子束曝光 MonteCarlo方法 低能电子散射 能量沉积     

Transport and Energy Deposition of hot Electrons through the Shock Ignition pre Compressed Target

Shock ignition as an alternative scheme of the laser fusion has the potential of achieving efficient implosion. However, hot electrons produced in result of ignitor‐corona interaction may penetrate deep into the fuel making the compression less effective. Transport and energy deposition of hot electron beam into the dense pre compressed of HiPER target by means of Monte Carlo approach are discussed considering the influence of real density and electron beam characteristics. The target parameters before igniting the hot spot have been extracted from a fluid code and used as the initial profile for Monte Carlo simulations. In comparison with simplified step like density profile, electrons penetrate slightly deeper in the case of real shaped density profile. In addition, deposition zone of a broad spectrum electron beam is wider while, monoenergetic electrons depose their energy locally resulting more maximum energy deposition value. (© 2016 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

半导体中光的相干传播理论(Ⅱ)

本文是关于半导体中光的相干传播理论的第二部分。考虑到电子空穴间的相互作用,我们讨论了光波与半导体的相互作用,得到了描述光激发电子空穴极化波的方程。我们指出只有在激发比较弱时,这组方程才可近似为一组线性方程,电子空穴极化波才可以看作玻色场。本文还着重讨论了分立的激子谱线的相干激发,证明了它可以近似等效于一个二能级系统的激发,等效的二能级系统的能级差和激发的程度有关,等效的二能级“原子”的“浓度”由激子波函数的性质决定。 关键词：     

Intersubband optical absorption of electrons in double parabolic quantum wells of Al_xGa_(1-x)As/Al_yGa_(1-y)As

Some realizable structures of double parabolic quantum wells(DPQWs) consisting of Al_xGa_(1-x)As/Al_yGa_(1-y)As are constructed to discuss theoretically the optical absorption due to the intersubband transition of electrons for both symmetric and asymmetric cases with three energy levels of conduction bands. The electronic states in these structures are obtained using a finite element difference method. Based on a compact density matrix approach, the optical absorption induced by intersubband transition of electrons at room temperature is discussed. The results reveal that the peak positions and heights of intersubband optical absorption coefficients(IOACs) of DPQWs are sensitive to the barrier thickness, depending on Al component. Furthermore, external electric fields result in the decrease of peak, and play an important role in the blue shifts of absorption spectra due to electrons excited from ground state to the first and second excited states. It is found that the peaks of IOACs are smaller in asymmetric DPQWs than in symmetric ones. The results also indicate that the adjustable extent of incident photon energy for DPQW is larger than for a square one of a similar size. Our results are helpful in experiments and device fabrication.     

改进的含温有界原子模型对金的电子物态方程的计算

在改进的含温有界原子模型基础上,在中心场近似下用分波法来处理部分自由电子密度分布函数.通过平均近似处理,给出劈裂的能带.在原子结构的自洽计算中采用能带重叠作为自由电子的动态判据.大量计算了Au的电子压强、能量、热容以及各种热力学系数. 关键词： 自洽场原子结构 状态方程 原子能量 电子压强     

Interferometric measurement of two-dimensional Xe and electron density distributions in XeCl laser discharges

A near-infrared, interferometric measurement of the density distribution of the electrons and excited xenon atoms has been performed at two discharge pumped, X-ray preionized XeCl lasers. The experimental results of one of these lasers are in good agreement with model calculations for the homogeneous phase. The electrons and excited states of xenon show a different behaviour in their spatial distributions at both lasers. In addition a region of inhomogeneities, which is identified as the hot-spot region, is been found near the cathode. Filamentation of the discharge can occur after a short time. The dimension of the hot-spot region depends on the preionization delay time. The same holds for the filamentation process, which in addition depends on the HCl partial pressure.     

Modeling of X-ray excited luminescence intensity dependence on the nanoparticle size

The thermalization length distribution of electrons over their kinetic energy in a conduction band is calculated on the basis of the data on the electron effective mass, density of states in conduction band, dielectric permittivity and energy of longitudinal optical phonons. The method of modeling of a recombinational luminescence intensity dependence on the nanoparticle size is proposed on the basis of the assumption that the contribution to a recombinational luminescence gives only those charge carriers which in the result of thermalization did not reach a near-surface layer of nanoparticles. Using such the approach the theoretical dependence of recombinational luminescence intensity on the nanoparticle size for LaPO₄ and LuPO₄ are calculated. The revealed correlation of experimental and theoretical dependences confirms that the commensurability of electron thermalization length with nanoparticle size is the main reason of the sharp decrease of X-ray excited luminescence intensity when the nanoparticle size decreases.