Velocity map imaging of inelastic and elastic low energy electron scattering in organic nanoparticles
Abstract
Electron transport is of fundamental importance and has application in a variety of fields. Different scattering mechanisms affect electron transport in the condensed phase; hence, it is important to comprehensively understand these mechanisms and their scattering cross sections to predict electron transport properties. Whereas electron transport is well understood for high kinetic energy (KE) electrons, there is a discrepancy in the experimental and theoretical values for the Inelastic Mean Free Path (IMFP) in the low KE regime. In this work, velocity map imaging soft X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is applied to unsupported organic nanoparticles (squalene) to extract experimental values of inelastic and elastic mean free paths (EMFPs). The obtained data are used to calculate corresponding scattering cross sections. The data demonstrate a decrease in the IMFP and increase in the EMFP with increasing electron KE between 10 and 50 eV.
- Authors:
-
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1564077
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1592793
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Chemical Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 151; Journal Issue: 18; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9606
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
Kostko, Oleg, Jacobs, Michael I., Xu, Bo, Wilson, Kevin R., and Ahmed, Musahid. Velocity map imaging of inelastic and elastic low energy electron scattering in organic nanoparticles. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.5126343.
Kostko, Oleg, Jacobs, Michael I., Xu, Bo, Wilson, Kevin R., & Ahmed, Musahid. Velocity map imaging of inelastic and elastic low energy electron scattering in organic nanoparticles. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5126343
Kostko, Oleg, Jacobs, Michael I., Xu, Bo, Wilson, Kevin R., and Ahmed, Musahid. Wed .
"Velocity map imaging of inelastic and elastic low energy electron scattering in organic nanoparticles". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5126343. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1564077.
@article{osti_1564077,
title = {Velocity map imaging of inelastic and elastic low energy electron scattering in organic nanoparticles},
author = {Kostko, Oleg and Jacobs, Michael I. and Xu, Bo and Wilson, Kevin R. and Ahmed, Musahid},
abstractNote = {Electron transport is of fundamental importance and has application in a variety of fields. Different scattering mechanisms affect electron transport in the condensed phase; hence, it is important to comprehensively understand these mechanisms and their scattering cross sections to predict electron transport properties. Whereas electron transport is well understood for high kinetic energy (KE) electrons, there is a discrepancy in the experimental and theoretical values for the Inelastic Mean Free Path (IMFP) in the low KE regime. In this work, velocity map imaging soft X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is applied to unsupported organic nanoparticles (squalene) to extract experimental values of inelastic and elastic mean free paths (EMFPs). The obtained data are used to calculate corresponding scattering cross sections. The data demonstrate a decrease in the IMFP and increase in the EMFP with increasing electron KE between 10 and 50 eV.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5126343},
journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
number = 18,
volume = 151,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Wed Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
Web of Science
Works referenced in this record:
Hot-Electron Transport in Polymeric Dielectrics
journal, July 1984
- Pfluger, P.; Zeller, H. R.; Bernasconi, J.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 53, Issue 1
Quantitative electron spectroscopy of surfaces: A standard data base for electron inelastic mean free paths in solids
journal, February 1979
- Seah, M. P.; Dench, W. A.
- Surface and Interface Analysis, Vol. 1, Issue 1
Photoelectron Angular Distributions from Liquid Water: Effects of Electron Scattering
journal, October 2013
- Thürmer, Stephan; Seidel, Robert; Faubel, Manfred
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 111, Issue 17
Angular Distribution of Photoelectrons
journal, January 1968
- Cooper, J.; Zare, R. N.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 48, Issue 2
New model for electron‐impact ionization cross sections of molecules
journal, February 1996
- Hwang, W.; Kim, Y. ‐K.; Rudd, M. E.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 104, Issue 8
The study of electron emission from aluminum in the very low primary energy range using Monte Carlo simulations
journal, February 2013
- Roupie, J.; Jbara, O.; Tondu, T.
- Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 46, Issue 12
The vapor pressure and vaporization enthalpy of squalene and squalane by correlation gas chromatography
journal, August 2019
- Zafar, Ameera; Chickos, James
- The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, Vol. 135
X-Ray Interactions: Photoabsorption, Scattering, Transmission, and Reflection at E = 50-30,000 eV, Z = 1-92
journal, July 1993
- Henke, B. L.; Gullikson, E. M.; Davis, J. C.
- Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables, Vol. 54, Issue 2, p. 181-342
Electron-impact ionization cross sections for polyatomic molecules, radicals, and ions
conference, January 2000
- Kim, Yong-Ki
- Second international conference on atomic and molecular data and their applications, AIP Conference Proceedings
Mean-free paths and scattering processes for 0.1–4500 eV electrons in saturated hydrocarbon films
journal, September 1987
- Cartier, E.; Pfluger, P.; Pireaux, J. -J.
- Applied Physics A, Vol. 44, Issue 1
Nanofocusing, shadowing, and electron mean free path in the photoemission from aerosol droplets
journal, August 2016
- Signorell, Ruth; Goldmann, Maximilian; Yoder, Bruce L.
- Chemical Physics Letters, Vol. 658
Experimental determination of the attenuation length of electrons in organic molecular solids: The example of PTCDA
journal, May 2011
- Graber, Tina; Forster, Frank; Schöll, Achim
- Surface Science, Vol. 605, Issue 9-10
Ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy of aqueous solutions
journal, September 2019
- Suzuki, Toshinori
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 151, Issue 9
Photoelectron angular distribution from free SiO 2 nanoparticles as a probe of elastic electron scattering
journal, June 2017
- Antonsson, E.; Langer, B.; Halfpap, I.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 146, Issue 24
Soft X-ray spectroscopy of nanoparticles by velocity map imaging
journal, July 2017
- Kostko, O.; Xu, B.; Jacobs, M. I.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 147, Issue 1
Probing the Heterogeneous Ozonolysis of Squalene Nanoparticles by Photoemission
journal, October 2016
- Jacobs, Michael I.; Xu, Bo; Kostko, Oleg
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 120, Issue 43
Low-energy elastic electron scattering from ethylene: Elastic scattering and vibrational excitation
journal, January 2016
- Khakoo, M. A.; Khakoo, S. M.; Sakaamini, A.
- Physical Review A, Vol. 93, Issue 1
Relaxation effects in C1s photoionisation of CO: a high resolution photoelectron study in the near-threshold region
journal, December 1995
- Köppe, H. M.; Kilcoyne, A. L. D.; Feldhaus, J.
- Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Vol. 75
Two-dimensional charged particle image inversion using a polar basis function expansion
journal, November 2004
- Garcia, Gustavo A.; Nahon, Laurent; Powis, Ivan
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 75, Issue 11
Low-Energy Electron Transmission through Thin-Film Molecular and Biomolecular Solids
journal, May 2007
- Naaman, R.; Sanche, L.
- Chemical Reviews, Vol. 107, Issue 5
Electron transport in solids for quantitative surface analysis
journal, January 2001
- Werner, Wolfgang S. M.
- Surface and Interface Analysis, Vol. 31, Issue 3
Effective and absolute cross sections for low-energy (1-30 eV) electron interactions with condensed biomolecules
journal, June 2018
- Zheng, Yi; Sanche, Léon
- Applied Physics Reviews, Vol. 5, Issue 2
A program for calculating relativistic elastic electron-atom collision data
journal, May 1971
- Yates, A. C.
- Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 2, Issue 4
Elastic-electron-scattering effects on angular distributions in x-ray-photoelectron spectroscopy
journal, August 1994
- Jablonski, A.; Powell, C. J.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 50, Issue 7
Attenuation lengths in organic materials
journal, February 2011
- Seah, M. P.; Spencer, S. J.
- Surface and Interface Analysis, Vol. 43, Issue 3
Shape Resonances in -Shell Photoionization of Diatomic Molecules
journal, July 1975
- Dehmer, J. L.; Dill, Dan
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 35, Issue 4
Numerical Calculations of the Reflection of Electrons by Metals
journal, October 1939
- MacColl, L. A.
- Physical Review, Vol. 56, Issue 7
Photoemission from Liquid Aqueous Solutions
journal, April 2006
- Winter, Bernd; Faubel, Manfred
- Chemical Reviews, Vol. 106, Issue 4
Core‐level photoelectron and Auger shape‐resonance phenomena in CO, CO 2 , CF 4 , and OCS
journal, March 1984
- Truesdale, C. M.; Lindle, D. W.; Kobrin, P. H.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 80, Issue 6
Elastic DCS for e+CH 4 collisions, 1.5-100 eV
journal, February 1991
- Boesten, L.; Tanaka, H.
- Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Vol. 24, Issue 4
Low-energy electron-induced reactions in condensed matter
journal, January 2010
- Arumainayagam, Christopher R.; Lee, Hsiao-Lu; Nelson, Rachel B.
- Surface Science Reports, Vol. 65, Issue 1
Photoelectron spectroscopy of liquid water and aqueous solution: Electron effective attenuation lengths and emission-angle anisotropy
journal, March 2010
- Ottosson, Niklas; Faubel, Manfred; Bradforth, Stephen E.
- Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Vol. 177, Issue 2-3
Simulation of electron spectra for surface analysis (SESSA): a novel software tool for quantitative Auger-electron spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
journal, January 2005
- Smekal, Werner; Werner, Wolfgang S. M.; Powell, Cedric J.
- Surface and Interface Analysis, Vol. 37, Issue 11
Electron-impact ionization cross sections of atmospheric molecules
journal, January 1997
- Kim, Y. -K.; Hwang, W.; Weinberger, N. M.
- The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 106, Issue 3
Maximum probing depth of low-energy photoelectrons in an amorphous organic semiconductor film
journal, December 2014
- Ozawa, Yusuke; Nakayama, Yasuo; Machida, Shin’ichi
- Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Vol. 197
Calculations of electron inelastic mean free paths. V. Data for 14 organic compounds over the 50-2000 eV range
journal, March 1994
- Tanuma, S.; Powell, C. J.; Penn, D. R.
- Surface and Interface Analysis, Vol. 21, Issue 3
Photoemission from Liquid Aqueous Solutions
journal, June 2006
- Winter Bernd, Winter Bernd; Faubel, Manfred
- ChemInform, Vol. 37, Issue 25
Low-Energy Electron Transmission Through Thin-Film Molecular and Biomolecular Solids
journal, July 2007
- Naaman, R.; Sanche, L.
- ChemInform, Vol. 38, Issue 31
A program for calculating relativistic elastic electron-atom collision data
journal, January 1984
- Yates, A. C.
- Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 35
Nanofocusing, shadowing, and electron mean free path in the photoemission from aerosol droplets
text, January 2016
- Ruth, Signorell,; Maximilian, Goldmann,; L., Yoder, Bruce
- ETH Zurich