Surface and bulk plasmon coupling observed in reflection electron energy loss spectra |
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Authors: | Wolfgang S.M. Werner |
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Affiliation: | Institut für Allgemeine Physik, Vienna University of Technology, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, A 1040 Vienna, Austria |
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Abstract: | Reflection electron energy loss spectra have been measured for a semiconductor and some metals (Si, Cu, Ag and Au). A novel procedure is presented to rigorously decompose the spectra into contributions corresponding to surface and volume excitations. The resulting distributions of energy losses in an individual surface loss are in good agreement with theory. In particular, the begrenzungs effect occurring at the boundary of a solid state plasma, i.e. the reduction of the intensity of bulk modes due to the coupling with surface modes, can be clearly observed in the retrieved energy loss distribution. |
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Keywords: | Electron-solid interactions Plasmons Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) |
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