Revealing the mechanism of the low-energy electron yield enhancement from sensitizing nanoparticles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Verkhovtsev, Alexey V ^a,b   Korol, Andrei V ^a,c   Solov'Yov, Andrey V ^a,b  

^a MBN Research Center   (Germany)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE MARINE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON EMISSION; IONIZING RADIATION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; PRECIOUS METALS;

ELECTRON EXCITATIONS; ELECTRON PRODUCTION; EMITTED ELECTRON; LOW ENERGY ELECTRONS; NANO-SCALE MECHANISM; PLASMON EXCITATIONS; PLATINUM NANO-PARTICLES; YIELD ENHANCEMENT;

ELECTRONS;

GADOLINIUM; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; PLATINUM; SILVER;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON;

ELECTRONS; GADOLINIUM; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PLATINUM; SILVER;

EID: 84922813228     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.063401     Document Type: Article

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