Atomic and Ionic Impact Phenomena on Metal Surfaces

✍ Scribed by Dr. Manfred Kaminsky (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1965
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 413
• Series: Struktur und Eigenschaften der Materie in Einzeldarstellungen 25
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The collisions of neutral or charged gaseous particles with solid surfaces govern many physical and chemical phenomena, as has been The gas/solid phenomena in turn depend on a recognized for a long time. great variety of processes such as the charge transfer of the gas/solid interface, adsorption and desorption, the energy transfer between an incident particle and the surface, etc. Our knowledge of these processes, however, is only fragmentary. This is partly due to the difficulty in adequately controlling the ex­ perimental conditions. Consequently, until recently the data were usually so complex that reliable information about a particular elementary process could not be deduced. Within the last five to ten years, however, the techniques of ultra-high vacuum and surface preparation have developed rapidly and there has been a booming and widespread interest in the role of gas/solid interactions in such diverse fields as plasma physics, thermonuclear reactions, thermionic energy conversion, ion propulsion, sputtering corrosion of the surface of satellites and ion engines, ion getter pumps, deposition of thin films, etc. This led to extensive investigations of numerous gas/solid phenomena, such as surface ionization, sputtering, emission of secondary electrons and ions from surfaces under atom and/or ion impact, ion neutralization, and the thermal accomodation of gaseous particles on surfaces. As a result, it has become possible to gather a variety of valuable information.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
The Nature of the Metal Surface....Pages 1-16
Determination of the Work Function of Metal Surfaces....Pages 17-28
Preparation of Metal Surfaces....Pages 28-33
Binding Forces Effective in the Collision of Atoms and Molecules with Metal Surfaces....Pages 33-42
Energetics of Surface Reactions....Pages 43-56
Inelastic Collisions of Atoms and Molecules with Metal Surfaces: The Accommodation Coefficient....Pages 56-95
Elastic Collisions of Atoms and Molecules with Metal Surfaces....Pages 95-98
Emission of Positive Ions Formed at Metal Surfaces (Surface Ionization)....Pages 98-135
Formation and Emission of Negative Ions at Metal Surfaces....Pages 136-141
Sputtering of Metal Surfaces by Ion Bombardment....Pages 142-237
Ion Scattering from Metal Surfaces....Pages 237-263
Neutralization of Ions on Metal Surfaces (Potential Emission of Secondary Electrons)....Pages 263-291
De-excitation of Metastable Atoms and Ions on Metal Surfaces....Pages 292-300
The Emission of Electrons from Metal Surfaces by Bombardment with Charged and Uncharged Particles (Kinetic Emission)....Pages 300-339
Erratum to: Inelastic Collisions of Atoms and Molecules with Metal Surfaces: The Accommodation Coefficient....Pages 403-403
Back Matter....Pages 340-402

✦ Subjects

Solid State Physics;Spectroscopy and Microscopy