Photoelectron asymmetry parameters of Ar,Kr, Xe,H2, N2, O2, CO and CO2: New measurements and a reconsideration of literature data

The performance of the first commercially available angular-dispersive photoelectron spectrometer (ADES 400, VG Scientific Ltd.) has been improved and     

强流电子束入射角二维分布测量方法

电子束与靶物质相互作用时的入射角测量是强流电子束热-力学效应研究中的难点问题. 提出了一种新的基于覆盖不同厚度衰减片微型法拉第筒阵列的电子束入射角测量方法, 与现有方法相比, 可获得具有时域特性和位置分布的强流电子束入射角分布. 以此方法进行了入射角二维分布(r, θ)测量实验, 结果表明, 电子束入射角二维分布与束流箍缩情况紧密相关. 如果箍缩不明显, 则电子主要在自身做回旋运动的同时沿着电力线运动, 多以垂直或者小角度(40°以下)轰击到阳极靶面; 如果箍缩明显, 受E×B漂移影响, 电子束入射角度会明显变大, 从40°以下增至60°左右.     

FLUKA程序在法拉第杯设计中的应用

法拉第杯是加速器束流强度绝对测量装置,其收集效率对于法拉第杯的设计至关重要。应用蒙特卡罗软件FLUKA对北京正负电子对撞机直线加速器分析磁铁AM2处的法拉第杯进行模拟设计。给出了法拉第杯不同部位对收集效率的影响曲线,并给出了入射电子在法拉第杯中的能量沉积分布与带电粒子分布图,最终得到了优化的法拉第杯尺寸,使得对入射电子的收集效率达到99.73%。     

强电场中的脉冲束流强度测量方法

针对强电场中电场渗透的问题,采用特殊的法拉第筒法测量脉冲束流强度:在法拉第筒入口处用栅网屏蔽强电场,并用在收集板上加正压的方式抑制二次电子。采用解析计算和数值模拟方式对栅网的形状进行了选择,在同样的栅网丝宽和透过率的前提下,通过正六边形栅网的渗透电场最弱,因此选择正六边形栅网。将设计的法拉第筒用于一台真空弧离子源的束流强度测量,获得了该离子源的束流强度波形,其峰值流强约为550 mA;利用测量结果计算了混合离子束在Cu收集板上的二次电子发射系数,约为2.0。     

The alignment of spectrometers and quantitative measurements in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

The alignment of the sample in X-ray photoelectron spectrometers is usually made to optimize the spectral intensities. There are two important classes of spectrometer: (i) those in which the analyser acceptance area is independent of the analysed electron kinetic energy; and (ii) those in which this area varies. Model experiments show how an example of a VG ESCALAB II conforms to class (i) whereas an example of an SSI X-probe is of class (ii) and shows an analyser acceptance area which depends approximately inversely on the emitted electron kinetic energy. This latter result means that the SSI X-probe spectrometer must be aligned for the electrons of the highest kinetic energy (smallest analyser acceptance area). A misalignment of 0.1 mm in the sample height can cause a 10% change in the relative intensities between 0 and 1000 eV binding energies. This dependence of the analyser acceptance area with energy is an effect likely to be common in the advanced electron optical systems of modern electron spectrometers and should be understood in order to use such spectrometers effectively. Such dependencies should be determined by analysts for their own instruments in the operating mode that is used for conducting work in which the repeatability of intensity measurements is important.     

Experimental study of the influence of the processes in the ion-beam drift space on beam current measurements

A method is proposed for separate measurements of the current produced by slow charge-exchange ions and that produced by the ions generated due to gas ionization by the beam ions and fast secondary electrons in the beam drift space. The method is based on an analysis of the current distribution over the electrodes of a modified Faraday cup with nonequipotential electrodes and allows one to determine the coefficient of ion-induced electron emission from the ion collector and the charge-exchange cross section of the accelerated ions. The method has been employed to measure the current of an argon ion beam with an ion energy from a few electronvolts to several tens of kiloelectronvolts and to study the processes in the beam drift space at pressures of 0.03–0.15 Pa.     

Diagnosis of laser produced plasma with charge collectors

Laser produced expanding plasmas exhibit appreciable spatial charge separations as measured by a low impedance Faraday cup. This can result from energetic electrons drifting with the positive ions. A Faraday cup collector with a magnetic filter in front is shown to measure the correct ion component as compared to other charge collector configurations.     

Graduation of electron spectrometer intensity scale. Part 1. A theoretical approach

We consider an ordinary spectrometer equipped with a dispersing field analyser (e.g. cylindrical mirror analyser (CMA)), an electron multiplier, and analogue differentiation facilities. Transformation of the true energy distribution of secondary electrons to the spectrometer output voltage is described mathematically using a spectrometer operator. Conditions are established that allow the mathematical expression of the operator to be reduced to a graduation function G(E′) of pass energy E′. The G(E′) function is defined as the product of a probability function definite integral and a multiplier gain coefficient. The operator and/or the graduation function take account of influences of any extraneous fields on the spectrometer output voltage.     

Experimental study of the energy dependence of transmission in photoelectron spectrometers

The present study describes an experiment which allows determination of the transmission of any photoelectron spectrometer using AlKα radiation. The procedure is based on the energy independence of transmission in an iron-free, magnetic-type spectrometer. The relative line intensifies for Ag measured using such an instrument are used as a reference data set. The transmission of a VG ESCALAB-5 spectrometer has been determined and found to be proportional to E in the constant retarding ratio mode, and proportional to E^?q, with q = 0.4 ± 0.05, in the constant analyser-energy mode, for energies usually encountered in XPS.     

Measurement of the charging of individual dust grains in a plasma

An experiment is described for investigating the charging of dust grains in a plasma. The apparatus is a double plasma device into which single dust grains are dropped from the top. The dust charge is detected and measured by a sensitive electrometer attached to a Faraday cup on the bottom. Experiments with electrons from the emissive filaments but without plasma indicate that the grains charge to approximately the filament potential for filament bias voltages smaller in absolute value than -70 V. The charge is of order 10⁶ electrons for SiC grains 30-150 μm in diameter. At higher bias voltage the charge is reduced due to secondary emission. The charge on grains increases with grain size and is nearly independent of the filament emission current. With plasma in the device, the grains charge both positively and negatively     

Accurate measurements of electron energies by field-emitter referencing

A new technique of electron Spectroscopy is described in which a standard electron spectrometer is used to compare the electron energy to be measured with the energies of electrons from a field-emitter reference source. Since the reference electrons are emitted at the Fermi level of the emitter tip, their total energy can be accurately measured with a high precision digital voltmeter. The measurements are automatically referenced to the absolute scale of energies and the need for calibration standards is eliminated. The application of the technique to X-ray photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) is described. Detailed analysis shows that the uncertainty in the field-emitter referenced XPS measurements is ± 0.06 electron volts.     

电子束潘宁阱非中性等离子体中电子聚心约束实验

介绍了电子束潘宁阱非中性等离子体实验。利用具有小正则角动量电子束的注入,在装置中形成了有稠密核心的电子等离子体。当潘宁阱中电磁场匹配是,约束电子的散射最强。注入电子束的束流强度超过一定的阈值时,电子聚心状态才能形成。阈值与潘宁阱电场成正比。     

Temperature measurements in plasmas generated by using lasers at different intensities

The temperature of laser-generated pulsed plasmas is an important property that depends on many parameters, such as the particle species and the time elapsed from the laser interaction with the matter and the surface characteristics.

Laser-generated plasmas with low intensity (<10¹⁰ W/cm²) at INFN-LNS of Catania and with high intensity (>10¹⁴ W/cm²) in PALS laboratory in Prague have been investigated in terms of temperatures relative to ions, electrons, and neutral species. Time-of-flight (ToF) measurements have been performed with an electrostatic ion energy analyzer (IEA) and with different Faraday cups, in order to measure the ion and electron average velocities. The IEA was also used to measure the ion energy, the ion charge state, and the ion energy distribution.

The Maxwell–Boltzmann function permitted to fit the experimental data and to extrapolate the ion temperature of the plasma core.

The velocity of the neutrals was measured with a special mass quadrupole spectrometer. The Nd:Yag laser operating at low intensity produced an ion temperature core of the order of 400 eV and a neutral temperature of the order of 100 eV for many ablated materials. The ToF of electrons indicates the presence of hot electron emission with an energy of ～1 keV.     

Interpretation of ghost lines in secondary-electron spectra determined by XPS

The photoelectron energy corresponding to the Fermi level of an investigated specimen and the onset energy for detection of secondary electrons are two characteristic energy values that can be used for work-function evaluation. Secondary-electron onset measurements are usually carried out by applying an acceleration voltage between the specimen and the spectrometer entrance, giving a structured secondary-electron spectrum showing three types of secondary electrons: those from the specimen, those from the entrance-slit system, and those from the X-ray tube window. For the latter electrons the electrical field built up in the sample chamber acts as an energy analyzer, imaging a discrete energy interval onto the spectrometer entrance slit. The variation of energy and intensity of these “ghost-lines” is discussed as a function of the applied acceleration voltage and the specimen tilting angle, leading to optimized experimental parameters for recording of secondary-electron spectra.     

In-beam spectroscopy of low energy conversion electrons with a recoil shadow method — A new possibility for subnanosecond lifetime measurements

An electron spectrometer consisting of an electron transport system with normal conducting solenoidal coils and a Si(Li)-detector as the energy dispersive element is described. It can be used for in beam spectroscopy of electrons in three different modes. The first one is the usual broad range mode with a low energy cut off of the transmission performed by a tantalum disk between target and detector. The second one is the lens spectrometer mode. An envelope baffle system permits electron detection in a momentum bandΔp/p=0.12. To cover a large energy range the magnet current is sweeped. In the third mode—the recoil shadow method — a longitudinal semicylindrical baffle between target and Si(Li)-detector allows spectroscopy of delayed electrons emitted from recoil nuclei in flight. Special features of this method are high transmission, and strong suppression of the promptδ-electron background. Lifetime measurements based on the detection of conversion electrons are possible by variation of the target position. This was tested with the¹⁵²Sm(¹⁶O,xn)^168?xYb compound nuclear reaction at a recoil velocityν _r=0.01 c, where half lives between 0.1 ns and 1 ns were determined.     

The origin and elimination of spurious peaks in threshold electron photoionization spectra

Autoionization electrons in threshold photoionization spectra are known to occur. The effect of such electrons on the interpretation of threshold electron spectra is discussed and a new method is described which enables one to discriminate between zero kinetic energy electrons and energetic electrons in photoionization experiments with little ambiguity. The method largely overcomes the main problem present in some previously described threshold electron studies; namely, the line-of-sight transmission of energetic electrons which gives rise to non-threshold electron peaks. A rejection ratio of 25 is readily obtained for 0.038 eV electrons compared with threshold (zero kinetic energy) electrons and the (small) transition probability for energetic electrons falls off more rapidly than for analysers previously described. Design parameters based on electron trajectory calculations are given for the analyser used, and photoionization results on argon are presented.     

Faraday dosimetry characteristics of PIII doping processes

A Faraday cup dosimetry system was developed and characterized to address the issues of plasma immersion ion implantation (PIII) dose measurements. Pure ion current was measured by using an electrostatic suppression mechanism combined with high-bandwidth fiber-optic electronics to isolate high-voltage pulses and eliminate the primary and secondary electron and displacement currents. The ion-current waveform measured by the Faraday cup was verified by an XPDP1 particle-in-cell simulation. All of the positively charged ions striking the target surface were counted for implant dose by the Faraday cup so that both high-energy implant dose during the pulse and low-energy implant dose between pulses can be separately determined. The dose of the high-energy implant during pulses, which is more influential on the junction depth, can be measured with a fairly good accuracy, although the low-energy implant dose cannot be accurately measured due to more complicated surface effects. Compared with other dosimetry methods for PIII doping processes, the Faraday dosimetry technique offers better repeatability and controllability for PIII processes due to its direct, in-situ manner.     

Analysis of the nitrogen ion beam generated in a low-energy plasmafocus device by a Faraday cup operating in the secondary electronemission mode

The energy distribution and flux of fast nitrogen particles generated in a Mather-type plasma focus device operating at 0.4 Torr of N₂ pressure is reported. A Faraday cup operating in the secondary electron emission mode was employed. To determine the total number of beam particles, multiple scattering of the ions was taken into account. It has been possible to register the ion energy up to a lower kinetic energy threshold of ≈50 keV, which is a value much lower than that obtained with a Thomson spectrometer in a previous work     

Time resolved studies on X-rays and charged particles emission from a low energy plasma focus device

The time resolved studies on soft X-ray, hard X-ray, electron beam and ion beam emissions from a low energy plasma focus device are carried out simultaneously by employing a photodiode X-ray spectrometer, a scintillator photomultiplier tube, a combination of Faraday cup and Rogowski coil assembly and a biased Faraday cup, respectively. The soft X-ray is seen to be emitted in short multiple pulses corresponding to different pinch stages where as it is a single for hard X-ray, which corresponds to only maximum pinch stage. Similarly, multiple pulses of electron beam is found, which also corresponds to different pinch stages and these pulses are analogous with the soft X-ray pulses. The effective hard X-ray photon energy is estimated by foil absorption technique and found to be around 110 keV, which is consistent with the observed electron beam energy distribution. The simultaneous investigation of the electron and ion beam shows that both are accelerated by the same local field generated during the pinching process. The detailed results of time resolved studies on various radiations are incorporated in this Letter.     

The relationship between transmission efficiencies in the FRR and fat modes of an electron spectrometer

The electron transmission efficiency as a function of kinetic energy for an electron spectrometer operating in the fixed analyser transmission (FAT) mode has been determined by direct comparison with the known transmission efficiency in the fixed retard ratio (FRR) mode. Results obtained from the background intensity and from the relative peak heights of a number of elements compare well with each other. They suggest that transmission in the FAT mode is nearly independent of kinetic energy.