Jablonski, A.
, Salvat, F.
and Powell, C.
(2004),
Effect of Different Electron Elastic-Scattering Cross Sections on Inelastic Mean Free Paths Obtained from Elastic-Backscattering Experiments, Microchimica Acta
(Accessed December 11, 2024)
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Effect of Different Electron Elastic-Scattering Cross Sections on Inelastic Mean Free Paths Obtained from Elastic-Backscattering Experiments
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Author(s)
Aleksander Jablonski, Francesc Salvat,
Abstract
Inelastic mean free paths (IMFPs) of electrons with energies between 100 eV and 5,000 eV have been frequently obtained from measurements of elastic-backscattering probabilities for different specimen materials. A calculation of these probabilities is also required to determine IMFPs. We report calculations of elastic-backscattering probabilities for gold at energies of 100 eV and 500 eV with differential elastic-scattering cross sections obtained from the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac potential and the more reliable Dirac-Hartree-Fock potential. For two representative experimental configurations, the average deviation between IMFPs obtained with cross sections from the two potentials was 11.4 %.Citation
Microchimica Acta
Volume
145
Issue
No. 1-4
Pub Type
Journals
Keywords
elastic-backscattering probabilities, electron elastic-scattering cross sectio, electron inelastic mean free paths, gold, surface analysis
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Created March 31, 2004, Updated October 12, 2021