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Title: Resonant charge-exchange studies with hyperthermal-energy ion beams: development of multi-detection capabilities and a data acquisition system. Final report, 15 November 1986-14 May 1988

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6066559

The overall research program described in this report is to investigate the interactions of hyperthermal (10-100 eV) and keV ions with clean and adsorbate-covered metal surfaces. Particular emphasis is placed on the study of ion-surface charge-exchange processes. Progress in instrumentation includes: completion of the general apparatus, the successful production of low phase-space alkali and noble-gas beams ranging in energy from about 10 eV to several keV, completion of two hemispherical analyzers for detecting scattered ions (one with high-resolution capabilities, the other for large angle scattering studies), design details of the position-sensitive pulse-counting detectors for multi-energy detection, and the configuration of a Macintosh II-based data-acquisition system. Scientific progress includes: measurements of 50-eV to 4-keV alkali scattering from clean and cesiated Cu(110), simulations using Hartree-Fock pair potentials that give good agreement with the 100- to 400-eV Na(+) scattering from Cu(110), trajectory analysis to identify peaks in the Na(+) energy spectra, measurements of charge-transfer probabilities for alkalis scattered from (Cu(110)) with low coverages (<1/10 monolayer) of Cs adsorbates, and ongoing development of a model that includes both local and collective effects of the Cs overlayers in determining charge transfer probabilities.

Research Organization:
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (USA). Lab. of Atomic and Solid State Physics
OSTI ID:
6066559
Report Number(s):
AD-A-201236/7/XAB
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English