Near-surface defect profiling with slow positrons

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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1985-12-01

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7561-7563

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Physical Review B, Volume 32, issue 11

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We report on slow-positron measurements of atomic defect distribution near a solid surface. Defects are produced by argon-ion bombardment of an Al(110) surface in ultrahigh vacuum. Defect profiles have a typical width of 1525 A and contain a broader tail extending to 50100 A. The defect density at the outermost atomic layers saturates at high argon fluences to a few atomic percent, depending on sputtering conditions. Defect production rate at >1 keV Ar+ energies is typically 15 vacancy-interstitial pairs per incident ion. Molecular-dynamics simulations of the collision cascade predict similar defect distributions.

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Vehanen , A , Mäkinen , J , Hautojarvi , P , Huomo , H , Lahtinen , J , Nieminen , R M & Valkealahti , S 1985 , ' Near-surface defect profiling with slow positrons : Argon-sputtered Al(110) ' , Physical Review B , vol. 32 , no. 11 , pp. 7561-7563 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.32.7561