Transport of Energetic Electrons in Solids: Computer Simulation with Applications to Materials Analysis and Characterization

✍ Scribed by Maurizio Dapor (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 192
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 999
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new edition describes all the mechanisms of elastic and inelastic scattering of electrons with the atoms of the target as simple as possible. The use of techniques of quantum mechanics is described in detail for the investigation of interaction processes of electrons with matter. It presents the strategies of the Monte Carlo method, as well as numerous comparisons among the results of the simulations and the experimental data available in the literature.
New in this edition is the description of the Mermin theory, a comparison between Mermin theory and Drude theory, a discussion about the dispersion laws, and details about the calculation of the phase shifts that are used in the relativistic partial wave expansion method. The role of secondary electrons in proton cancer therapy is discussed in the chapter devoted to applications. In this context, Monte Carlo results about the radial distribution of the energy deposited in PMMA by secondary electrons generated by energetic proton beams are presented.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Electron Transport in Solids....Pages 1-10
Cross-Sections: Basic Aspects....Pages 11-16
Scattering Mechanisms....Pages 17-45
Random Numbers....Pages 47-51
Monte Carlo Strategies....Pages 53-68
Backscattering Coefficient....Pages 69-83
Secondary Electron Yield....Pages 85-93
Electron Energy Distributions....Pages 95-108
Applications....Pages 109-119
Appendix A: The First Born Approximation and the Rutherford Cross-Section....Pages 121-128
Appendix B: The Mott Theory....Pages 129-148
Appendix C: The Fröhlich Theory....Pages 149-159
Appendix D: The Ritchie Theory....Pages 161-166
Appendix E: The Chen and Kwei and the Li et al. Theory....Pages 167-169
Appendix F: The Mermin Theory and the Generalized Oscillator Strength Method ....Pages 171-174
Appendix G: The Kramers–Kronig Relations and the Sum Rules....Pages 175-178
Appendix H: From the Electron Energy Loss Spectrum to the Dielectric Function....Pages 179-180
Back Matter....Pages 181-182

✦ Subjects

Solid State Physics;Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation;Characterization and Evaluation of Materials;Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering