Bombardments

Despite these artifacts, sputtering is the most versatile, robust, and universal surface cleaning tool used in electron spectroscopy. It can also be used in conjunction with the analysis tool to perform what is commonly referred 

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Brownian movement The rapid and random movement of particles of a colloidal sol, observed brightly lit against a dark ground. First observed with a pollen suspension. The Brownian movement is due to the impact on the dispersed particles of the molecules of the dispersion medium. As the particles increase in size, the probability of unequal bombardment from different sides decreases, and eventually collisions from all sides cancel out and the Brownian movement becomes imperceptible at a particle size of about 3-4/z. From the characteristics of the movement, Perrin calculated Avogadro s number L. 

Radioactive elements may often be prepared artificially by bombarding the atoms of ordinary stable elements with, e.g. helium nuclei. See radioactivity, artificial. 

Numerous nuclear transformations have been induced by processes in which atoms have been bombarded with neutrons, protons, deuterium, carbon atoms and ions. 

The new elements neptunium and plutonium have been produced in quantity by neutron bombardment of uranium. Subsequently many isotopes have been obtained by transmutation and synthetic isotopes of elements such as Ac and Pa are more easily obtained than the naturally occurring species. Synthetic species of lighter elements, e.g. Tc and Pm are also prepared. 

X-ray Electromagnetic radiation of wave length c. 1 k. X-rays are generated in various ways, including the bombarding of solids with electrons, when they are emitted as a result of electron transitions in the inner orbits of the atoms bombarded. Each element has a characteristic X-ray spectrum. 

For trace quantities of less than 100 ppm, the most successful method — and the most costly— is neutron activation. The sample is subjected to neutron bombardment in an accelerator where oxygen 16 is converted to unstable nitrogen 16 having a half-life of seven seconds. This is accompanied by emission of (J and 7 rays which are detected and measured. Oxygen concentrations as low as 10 ppm can be detected. At such levels, the problem is to find an acceptable blank sample. 

When subjected to an electron bombardment whose energy level is much higher than that of hydrocarbon covalent bonds (about 10 eV), a molecule of mass A/loses an electron and forms the molecular ion, the bonds break and produce an entirely new series of ions or fragments . Taken together, the fragments relative intensities constitute a constant for the molecule and can serve to identify it this is the basis of qualitative analysis. 

DIET Desorption induced by electronic transitions [147a] General class of desorption and reaction phenomena induced by electron or photon bombardment Same as ESD and PSD... 

Once a sample is properly oriented and polished, it is placed into a UHV chamber for the final preparation steps. Samples are processed in situ by a variety of methods in order to produce an atomically clean and flat surface. Ion bombardment and aimealing (IBA) is the most conunon method used. Other methods include cleaving and film growth. 

Figure Al.7.12. Secondary electron kinetic energy distribution, obtained by measuring the scadered electrons produced by bombardment of Al(lOO) with a 170 eV electron beam. The spectrum shows the elastic peak, loss features due to the excitation of plasmons, a signal due to the emission of Al LMM Auger electrons and the inelastic tail. The exact position of the cutoff at 0 eV depends on die surface work fimction.

Figure Al.7.13. ESDIAD patterns showing the angular distributions of F emitted from PF adsorbed on Ru (0001) under electron bombardment, (a) 0.25 ML coverage, (b) the same surface following electron beam damage.

A connnon feature of all mass spectrometers is the need to generate ions. Over the years a variety of ion sources have been developed. The physical chemistry and chemical physics communities have generally worked on gaseous and/or relatively volatile samples and thus have relied extensively on the two traditional ionization methods, electron ionization (El) and photoionization (PI). Other ionization sources, developed principally for analytical work, have recently started to be used in physical chemistry research. These include fast-atom bombardment (FAB), matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) and electrospray ionization (ES). 

FigureBl.7.2. Schematic representations of alternative ionization methods to El and PI (a) fast-atom bombardment in which a beam of keV atoms desorbs solute from a matrix (b) matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization and (c) electrospray ionization.

Barber N, Bordoll R S, Elliot G J, Sedgwiok R D and Tyler A N 1982 Fast atom bombardment mass speotrometry Anal. Chem. 54 645A-57A... 

Heiland W and Taglauer E 1973 Bombardment induced surface damage in a nickel single crystal observed by ion scattering and LEED Rad. Effects. 19 1-6... 

Dodonoy A I, Mashkova E S and Molchanov V A 1989 Medium-energy ion scattering by solid surfaces. Ill ejection of fast recoil atoms from solids under ion bombardment Rad. Eff. Def Sol. 110 227-341... 

If the molecules could be detected with 100% efficiency, the fluxes quoted above would lead to impressive detected signal levels. The first generation of reactive scattering experiments concentrated on reactions of alkali atoms, since surface ionization on a hot-wire detector is extremely efficient. Such detectors have been superseded by the universal mass spectrometer detector. For electron-bombardment ionization, the rate of fonnation of the molecular ions can be written as... 

Lee Y T, McDonald J D, LeBreton P R and Herschbach D R 1969 Molecular beam reactive scattering apparatus with electron bombardment detector Rev. Sol. Instrum 40 1402-8... 

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