Correlation of electron self-energy with geometric structure in low-energy electron diffraction

In low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) studies of surface geometries where the energy dependence of the intensities is analyzed, the in-plane lattice parameter of the surface is usually set to a value determined by x-ray diffraction for the bulk crystal. In cases where it is not known, for instance in films that are incommensurate with the substrate, it is desirable to fit the in-plane lattice parameters in the same analysis as the perpendicular interlayer spacings. We show that this is not possible in a conventional LEED I(E) analysis because the inner potential, which is typically treated as an adjustable parameter, is correlated with the geometrical structure. Therefore, without having prior knowledge of the inner potential, it is not possible to determine the complete surface structure simply from LEED I(E) spectra, and the in-plane lattice parameter must be determined independently before the I(E) analysis is performed. This can be accomplished by establishing a more precise experimental geometry. Further, it is shown that the convention of omitting the energy dependency of the real part of the inner potential means geometrical LEED results cannot be trusted beyond a precision of approximately 0.01 ?.     

Coherent interaction of ion and electron beams in systems with electron cooling

A hydrodynamic approximation is used to study the behavior of dipole modes of the transverse oscillations of an ion beam in a storage ring with an electron cooling section. It is shown that in addition to the finite interaction time of the beams, instability may be caused by a specific interaction effect between the ion and electron beams in the magnetic field which leads to redistribution of energy between the various modes of the ion beam oscillations. In this case, the condition that the determinant of the transfer matrix for the cooling section does not exceed unity no longer guarantees the stability of the transverse coherent oscillations of the ion beam and all the eigenvalues of the complete matrix of the ion motion including the storage ring must be analyzed. Calculations of the stability of ion beam dipole oscillations are presented for the parameters of CELSIUS.     

Formation of wide-aperture electron beams in electron accelerators with explosive emission cathodes

The problems concerning the formation of electron beams of microsecond duration, electron energy 500–600 keV, and current density up to 20–30 A/cm² with a rectangular cross section of area 0.1–1 m² in high-current electron accelerators with explosive emission cathodes are considered. The designs of vacuum diodes capable of producing such beams to be used in high-power lasers and for ionization of gas in large volumes are presented. Institute of High-Current Electronics, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 87–91, April, 2000.     

Interaction of cathode plasma with the cathode surface in an electron source with explosive electron emission

The interaction of the plasma formed at emission centers of an electron source using explosive electron emission with the cathode surface is studied. It is found that the plasma flux does not flow around obstacles located in its path and is effectively deionized upon incidence on the wall.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 11, pp. 26–29, November, 1981.     

Theoretical analysis of electron acoustic shock waves in magnetized superthermal plasma with electron beam

We have analysed the small-amplitude non-linear electron acoustic shock waves by taking into account the effects of electron beam in magnetized plasma. Satellite observations in different regions of the Earth's magnetosphere have shown that the electrostatic solitary waves are generally associated with electron or/and ion beams. The nonlinear Korteweg-de-Vries Burgers (KdVB) equation has been derived by considering the basic fluid equations and dissipation effects. The nonlinear coefficient of KdVB equation comes out to be negative. Only dip-shaped potential structures are reported here. For the parameters discussed in this paper, we did not find positive polarity shocks. This could be due to the restrictions on the plasma parameters since we are using the fixed densities of the cold, hot, and beam electrons as observed by the Viking satellite in the auroral region. In this paper, the importance of the cold electron to hot electron temperature in conjunction with the beam speed is pointed out. Increase in beam density, kinematic viscosity, and magnetic field results in increase in the amplitude while the increase in hot electron concentration and superthermality leads to decrease in potential. The numerical analysis is presented for the parameters corresponding to the observation of burst b event by Viking satellite in the dayside auroral zone of the earth's magnetosphere.     

High-frequency conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas with impurity electron states

The high-frequency conductivity tensor for a two-dimensional electron gas with short-range-acting impurity atoms has been computed. Spatial dispersion of the conductivity was taken into account. The threshold and maxima of the dissipative part of the conductivity arising from ionization of the impurity atoms by the field of electromagnetic waves were found. Numerical calculations of the conductivity were carried out for semiconductor structures with a two-dimensional electron gas. Khar’kov State University. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 7, pp. 91–94, July, 1997.     

Beam extraction with electron pick-up

It is shown that electron pick-up from a cooling electron beam can be used to extract an ion beam from a storage ring. The technique is described and extraction times are estimated. A few applications for medium-energy ion storage rings are given.     

掺杂半导体扫描电镜二次电子像

综述了用扫描电镜的二次电子像获得掺杂半导体衬度剖析的方法．实验发现掺杂半导体扫描电镜像对杂质浓度的灵敏度可以达到1016cm^-3，且空间分辨率高达nm量级，是最有可能发展成为下一代掺杂剖析成像的主流技术．文中还探讨了半导体掺杂衬度的可能的机理，详细介绍了两种主要机理：表面能带弯曲和样品外局域电场的出现．     

Passive magnetic shielded spin polarized electron source with optical electron polarimeter

A new GaAs(100) spin polarized electron source with an optical polarimeter, which is employed in the field of polarized electron and gas atom collision, is presented in detail. The apparatus is passive-magnetic-shielded by a box and a cylinder made of nickel--iron--molybdenum soft magnetic alloy without Helmholtz coil arrangement. And a uniformly distributed residual magnetic field of less than 5×10^-7,T is obtained near the collision area. The spin polarized electron beam is transmitted and focused onto collision point from photocathode by a set of electron optics with more than 25% transmission 95cm distance through an 1mm diameter aperture. Construction and operation of the apparatus, such as vacuum and magnetic shielding system, photocathode, laser optics, electron optics and polarimeter are discussed. The polarization of the spin polarized electron beam is determined to be 30.8\pm3.5% measured with a He optical polarimeter.     

Collimation with hollow electron beams

A novel concept of controlled halo removal for intense high-energy beams in storage rings and colliders is presented. It is based on the interaction of the circulating beam with a 5-keV, magnetically confined, pulsed hollow electron beam in a 2-m-long section of the ring. The electrons enclose the circulating beam, kicking halo particles transversely and leaving the beam core unperturbed. By acting as a tunable diffusion enhancer and not as a hard aperture limitation, the hollow electron beam collimator extends conventional collimation systems beyond the intensity limits imposed by tolerable losses. The concept was tested experimentally at the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton collider. The first results on the collimation of 980-GeV antiprotons are presented.     

Trions in quantum-well structures with two-dimensional electron gas

A study has been made of bound exciton-electron complexes (trions) and unbound exciton-electron states (combined exciton-cyclotron resonance) from reflectance spectra obtained from modulation-doped CdTe/CdMgTe quantum-well structures. It has been established that the contribution of trions to dielectric permittivity is comparable to that of excitons. An analysis is made of the magnetic-field dependence of the parameters describing the contribution to dielectric permittivity due to exciton-cyclotron-resonance states. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 40, 813–815 (May 1998)     

Controlling nucleation rates in nanostructures with electron confinement

One of the goals for growing low dimensional structures is to explore their electronic structure variation with size due to confinement. Recent experiments in Pb adsorption on Pb islands of stable and unstable height at low temperatures have shown a spectacular variation in the nucleated island density (～60 times) as a function of height. With Monte Carlo simulations we can faithfully reproduce the observed morphologies with a single assumption that i_c is different on stable and unstable islands. This shows that confinement can result in large oscillations of nucleation rates and adsorption.     

Phonon damping in conductors with quasilocal electron states

Decrement of the electron damping of phonons has been calculated in weakly doped metals and degenerate semiconductors. Local and quasilocal electron states in the field of impurity atoms have been taken into account. It is shown that in the frequency dependence of the decrement there appears a maximum caused by transitions between local, quasilocal, and band electron states.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebynkh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 33–36, February, 1987.The author thanks E. A. Kaner for a discussion of the results of this work.     

Free electron laser spectral dynamics with a modulation of electron beam energy

Recent experimental and theoretical works on free electron laser spectral dynamics have pointed out the difficulty to obtain a narrow and stable spectrum operation. This goal can only be achieved by avoiding the sideband generation leading to a broadband and unstable spectrum. Tapered wiggler and two-frequency wiggler are well suited for combining sharp spectrum and high efficiency but are not really compatible with a wide tunability of laser light. Filtering sidebands is a good way for lower power experiments but it seems to be difficult to conceive wideband filters, specially in the far-infrared region. Modulation of electron energy is a new potential soft way for controlling the spectral dynamics of longpulse free electron laser. Spectral dynamics under the modulation is investigated in the linear and non-linear regimes in the far-infrared region. Simulations show that a pulsed and sharp spectrum behavior can be obtained by optimizing the modulation parameters. The interest of such a method for the far-infrared experiments is discussed.     

用5种不同的电子光学软件对微波管电子枪进行模拟计算

 对TWTCAD微机版、工作站版本、EGUN，CAMEO以及Orprogr电子光学软件背景和特点作了一个简单介绍，并利用其模拟计算了11支不同结构的电子枪。将计算得到的导流系数、射程和注腰半径与实验数据列表对比，结果表明：不同电子光学软件计算不同类型电子枪其计算精度也不一样。在导流系数方面，EGUN和Orprogr的计算精度较高，绝对平均误差分别为7.18%和7.4%；在射程方面，TWTCAD的计算精度最高，绝对平均误差为5.69%；在注腰半径方面，Orprogr与实验值偏差较大，绝对平均误差为47.43%，而工作站版本的计算精度最高，绝对误差仅为2.29%。     

An electron paramagnetic resonance study of LDPE irradiated with high-energy electron beam

Cross-linking of the polyethylene was performed with a high-energy electron beam. Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to study the lifetime of unpaired electron in the irradiated samples. Time-dependent electrical parameters are investigated for the cross-linked low-density polyethylene. Both dielectric constant and dielectric strength almost remained unchanged, but for short times, the volume resistivity and loss factor increased and decreased, respectively. It is predicted that for lifetime longer than 48 h, the electrical parameters were constant. It is believed that the variation of some electrical properties during time is due to the effects of trapped electrons.     

Long-pulse improved central electron confinement in the TCV tokamak with electron cyclotron heating and current drive

Current profile tailoring by electron cyclotron heating (ECH) and current drive (ECCD) is used to improve central electron energy confinement in the TCV tokamak. Counter-ECCD on axis alone achieves this goal in a transient manner only. A stable scenario is obtained by a two-step sequence of off-axis ECH, which stabilizes magnetohydrodynamics modes, and on-axis counter-ECCD, which generates a flat or inverted current profile. This high-confinement regime, with central temperatures up to 9 keV (at a normalized beta(N) approximately 0.6), has been sustained for the entire duration of the heating pulse, or over 200 electron energy confinement times and 5 current redistribution times.