A note on the angular distribution of the characteristic surface loss intensity of electrons with non-normal incidence to the foils |
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Authors: | Yoshiko Oi Nakamura |
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Institution: | Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science, Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
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Abstract: | By using a quantized theory of non-radiative surface plasmon in a semi-infinite electron gas, where retardation is taken into account, the differential surface loss intensity of electrons in a metal foil is calculated for the case of non-normal incidence of electron to the metal surface. The result shows that the differential surface loss intensity neither has a zero at θ = 0 for the case of normal incidence nor has a zero at a forward direction (θ ≠ 0, φ = 0) for the case of non-normal incidence, whose existences were predicted by electrostatic theories, but diverges as 1/θ at θ = 0 for both cases. It is also shown that, when the angle of incidence is greater than a certain critical value, there is a region of direction to which incident electrons can be scattered by exciting any one of surface plasmons with three different wave vectors. |
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