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The inelastic mean free path of electrons can roughly be described by a universal curve that is the same for all materials. [1] [3] The knowledge of the IMFP is indispensable for several electron spectroscopy and microscopy measurements. [4]
In a solid, inelastic scattering events also contribute to the photoemission process, generating electron-hole pairs which show up as an inelastic tail on the high BE side of the main photoemission peak. In fact this allows the calculation of electron inelastic mean free path (IMFP).
Here mfp is the mean free path of electron inelastic scattering, which has been tabulated for most elemental solids and oxides. [ 14 ] The spatial resolution of this procedure is limited by the plasmon localization and is about 1 nm, [ 6 ] meaning that spatial thickness maps can be measured in scanning transmission electron microscopy with ~1 ...
Here d is the penetration depth, and () denotes the inelastic mean free path, defined as the distance an electron can travel before its intensity has decreased by the factor 1/e. While the inelastic scattering processes and consequently the electronic mean free path depend on the energy, it is relatively independent of the material.
In physics, mean free path is the average distance over which a moving particle (such as an atom, a molecule, or a photon) travels before substantially changing its direction or energy (or, in a specific context, other properties), typically as a result of one or more successive collisions with other particles.
Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) is an experimental tool for studying the vibrations of molecular adsorbates on metal oxides. It yields vibrational spectra of the adsorbates with high resolution (< 0.5 meV) and high sensitivity (< 10 13 molecules are required to provide a spectrum). [ 1 ]
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The DSMC method was proposed by Graeme Bird, [1] [2] [3] emeritus professor of aeronautics, University of Sydney. DSMC is a numerical method for modeling rarefied gas flows, in which the mean free path of a molecule is of the same order (or greater) than a representative physical length scale (i.e. the Knudsen number Kn is greater