Kinetic electron excitation in atomic collision cascades

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 13, 2004, Pages

  Meyer, S ^a   Diesing, D ^b   Wucher, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADES (FLUID MECHANICS); CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ENERGY ABSORPTION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ION SOURCES; REACTION KINETICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ATOMIC COLLISIONS; ELECTRON EXCITATIONS; METAL-INSULATOR-METAL (MIM) SYSTEM; SOLID SURFACES; TUNNELING CURRENT;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 19644362463     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.137601     Document Type: Article

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