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ChemistryInorganic Chemistry

Inelastic Ion-Surface Collisions. Ion Neutralization on Intermetallic Surfaces

Authors: J. W. Rabalais; HOUSTON UNIV TX DEPT OF CHEMISTRY
Abstract:
Ion scattering and direct recoil spectrometries were used to investigate electronic excitation and charge transfer processes occurring during rare gas ion bombardment of CuLi alloy. Excitations in the close encounter appear to be governed by the degree of inner shell mixing between the colliding pair. Excitations in the outgoing trajectory are governed by the probabilities of Auger and resonant charge exchange between the scattered or recoiled particle and the surface. Measurements of the vacuum ultraviolet photon emission of the scattered and recoiled particles proved to be unsuccessful due to low photon yields. The ion induced surface damage to transition metal fluoroanions was investigated by XPS and UPS. Ion bombardment reduces the transition metal atom to lower oxidation states, in some cases all the way to the metal. These results are consistent with the thermal spike model of ion damage. Keywords: Ion surface collisions; Emission; Scattering, Recoiling. (mjm)

Limitations: APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Description: Technical rept.
Pages: 17
Report Date: 01 JUN 88
Contract Number: F19628-86-K-0013
Report Number: A223691
Keywords relating to this report:
*Ion bombardment
*IONS
*PHOTONS
*SCATTERING
ATOMS
AUGERS
CHARGE TRANSFER
COLLISIONS
DAMAGE
ELECTRONS
EMISSION
EXCITATION
MIXING
MODELS
NEUTRALIZATION
PARTICLES
PROBABILITY
RARE GASES
RECOIL
RESONANCE
SHELLS_STRUCTURAL FORMS_
SPIKES
SURFACES
THERMAL PROPERTIES
TRAJECTORIES
TRANSITION METALS
VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION
YIELD
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