The role of positive gaseous ions in the formation of secondary electron images in low vacuum scanning electron microscopes is discussed. This paper describes the charging processes and related effects that occur during high vacuum imaging of insulators and then discusses the influence of ions on those processes. The ions are responsible for a number of phenomena, including distortion of the electric field above and below the specimen surface due to space charge, removal of excess negative charge from the specimen, alteration of the specimen surface barrier, and scavenging/filtering of the secondary electron emission. The resulting electron-specimen-ion interactions can give rise to interesting contrast effects that are unique to this class of instruments. 相似文献
Summary Dielectric measurements on Na2B4O7(99.5%)−V2O5(0.5%) glass system, in the frequency range 10−3 to 104 Hz and temperature range 300 to 500 K, have been carried out. The normalized plots of complex capacitance have shown a single
mechanism responsible for conduction for both volume and surface measurements with their close values of activation energies
(0.67±0.03) eV and (0.64±0.03) eV, respectively. The low-frequency dispersion (LFD) behaviour has been observed to be perturbed
by the presence of more than one competing process. The impedance plots have shown a parallel combination of a capacitor (C) and a resistor (R), with some contribution of a dispersive element due to charge accumulation in the vicinity of the electrodes. The values
ofR andC were found to be of the same order of magnitude, for both surface and volume measurements. The observedR has shown a decrease with an increase in temperature due to an increase in mobility of Na+ ions, whereasC remains practicaly constant. The complex capacitance surface behaviour is dominated by volume, due to hygroscopy of this
glass system. 相似文献
We discuss the well-known three-centre cation–anion–cation model for superexchange in insulating transition-metal compounds using limiting expansions for the Anderson–Hubbard model. We find that due to the interfering energy scales in the model, a limiting expression for the superexchange J for the idealized Mott–Hubbard (M–H) case t?U?Δ cannot be formally defined. We further show that the decomposition of the superexchange into range-dependent components is formally invalid. The well-known t4 superexchange expression, obtained from path-dependent series expansions, is not unique to these systems as it can also be obtained with many other different expansions, in which either the d–p energy difference Δ or the d-electron correlation U can actually be small. Particularly for milder relationships between the parameters, i.e. t?U?Δ, the reverse from the usual form of the series expansions can yield better agreement with the exact results. This implies that the fitting of experimental data to the simple expressions derived from path-dependent series expansions can lead to qualitatively incorrect relationships between the parameters, fictitiously within the M–H regime. 相似文献
The feasibility of realizing a photonic Floquet topological insulator (PFTI) in an atomic ensemble is demonstrated. The interference of three coupling fields will split energy levels periodically, to form a periodic refractive index structure with honeycomb profile that can be adjusted by different frequency detunings and intensities of the coupling fields. This in turn will affect the appearance of Dirac cones in momentum space. When the honeycomb lattice sites are helically ordered along the propagation direction, gaps open at Dirac points, and one obtains a PFTI in an atomic vapor. An obliquely incident beam will be able to move along the zigzag edge of the lattice without scattering energy into the PFTI, due to the confinement of edge states. The appearance of Dirac cones and the formation of a photonic Floquet topological insulator can be shut down by the third‐order nonlinear susceptibility and opened up by the fifth‐order one.
Reflection electron energy loss spectroscopy (REELS) spectra were measured for seven insulating organic compounds (DNA, Irganox 1010, Kapton, polyethylene [PE], poly(methyl methacrylate) [PMMA], polystyrene [PS] and polytetrafluoroethylene [PTFE]). Optical constants and energy band gaps were extracted from the measured REELS spectra after elimination of multiple electron scattering via a deconvolution and fitting the normalised single scattering energy loss spectra to Drude and Drude–Lindhard model dielectric functions, constrained by the Kramers–Kronig sum and f-sum rules. Satisfactory agreement is found for those optical constants for which literature data exists. For PTFE, the observed features in the optical data correspond to its electronic structure. 相似文献
The photocurrent of surface states of topological insulator due to photon-drag effect is computed, being based on pure Dirac model of surface states. The scattering by disorder is taken into account to provide a relaxation mechanism for the photocurrent. The Keldysh–Schwinger formalism has been employed for the systematic calculation of photocurrent. The helicity dependent photocurrent of sizable magnitude transverse to the in-plane photon momentum is found, which is consistent with experimental data. Other helicity independent photocurrents with various polarization states are also calculated. 相似文献
The preferred adsorption sites and the propensity for a self-organised growth of the molybdenum sulfide cluster Mo6S8 on the Au(111) surface are investigated by density-functional band-structure calculations with pseudopotentials and a plane
wave basis set. The quasi-cubic cluster preferentially adsorbs via a face and remains structurally intact.
It experiences a strong, mostly non-ionic attraction to the surface
at several quasi-isoenergetic adsorption positions. A scan of the potential energy surface exhibits only small barriers between
adjacent strong adsorption sites. Hence, the cluster may move in a potential well with degenerate local energy minima at room
temperature. The analysis of the electronic structure reveals a negligible
electron transfer and S-Au hybridised states, which indicate that the cluster-surface
interaction is dominated by S-Au bonds, with minor contributions from
the Mo atom in the surface vicinity. All results indicate that Mo6S8 clusters
on the Au(111) surface can undergo a template-mediated self-assembly to an ordered inorganic monolayer, which is still redox
active and may be employed as surface-active agent in the integration of noble metal and ionic or biological components within
nano-devices.
Therefore, a classical potential model was developed on the basis of the DFT data,
which allows to study larger cluster assemblies on the Au(111). 相似文献
There is an urgent need for the development in the field of the magnetism of topological insulators, owing to the necessity for the realization of the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Herein, we discuss experimentally fabricated nanostructured hierarchical architectures of the topological insulator Bi2Te3 without the introduction of any exotic magnetic dopants, in which intriguing room‐temperature ferromagnetism was identified. First‐principles calculations demonstrated that the intrinsic point defect with respect to the antisite Te site is responsible for the creation of a magnetic moment. Such a mechanism, which is different from that of a vacancy defect, provides new insights into the origins of magnetism. Our findings may pave the way for developing future Bi2Te3‐based dissipationless spintronics and fault‐tolerant quantum computation. 相似文献