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Radiation Damage. It has been known for many years that bombardment of a crystal with energetic (keV to MeV) heavy ions produces regions of lattice disorder. An implanted ion entering a soHd with an initial kinetic energy of 100 keV comes to rest in the time scale of about 10 due to both electronic and nuclear coUisions. As an ion slows down and comes to rest in a crystal, it makes a number of coUisions with the lattice atoms. In these coUisions, sufficient energy may be transferred from the ion to displace an atom from its lattice site. Lattice atoms which are displaced by an incident ion are caUed primary knock-on atoms (PKA). A PKA can in turn displace other atoms, secondary knock-ons, etc. This process creates a cascade of atomic coUisions and is coUectively referred to as the coUision, or displacement, cascade. The disorder can be directiy observed by techniques sensitive to lattice stmcture, such as electron-transmission microscopy, MeV-particle channeling, and electron diffraction. 

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An electron impact (El) ion source uses an electron beam, usually generated from a rhenium filament, to ionize gas-phase atoms or molecules. Electrons from the beam (usually 70 eV) knock an electron from a bond of the atoms or molecules creating fragments and molecular ions [366,534,535]. Several factors contribute to the popularity of El ionization in environmental analyses such as stability, ease of operation, simple construction, precise beam intensity control, relatively high efficiency of ionization, and narrow kinetic energy spread of the ions formed. 

The kinetics are determined by a few intuitive parameters which can be extracted from our quantum or QC studies, estimated, and in some cases, measured. Ignoring isotope effects, the parameter set reduces to Prs,c = Cxx = cxY,r = p/s = rxx = rxx = rxx = > yy and b = bXY. Our QC simulations suggest that p is small for H and D atom reactions on the order of 0.1 for Ni(l 00). The ER reaction cross sections are also small on the order of 0.5 A2, or less. We have observed b to be on the order of a few to several percent, and to be isotope dependent, with D more likely to knock an adsorbed H out of its site than the other way around. 

In recent years studies have been developed in spontaneous disease models, gene knock out models and transgenic animals. These models provide information on the pharmacological action, pharmaco-kinetics and tolerability of a biotech products. 

We note that under conditions of diffusion control, the current depends on t . Thus, a small change in drop time, resulting from a change in surface tension with potential, does not produce a large difference in the diffusion current. If the error caused by this effect is considered troublesome, it is possible to knock the drops off at fixed intervals, yielding drops of exactly equal size, irrespective of the surface tension. This mode of operation becomes of particular importance for kinetic studies conducted at the foot of the polaro-graphic wave, since the activation-controlled current is proportional to the surface area, which is itself proportional to (the volume increases linearly with time). 

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