Deriving Effective Energy Loss Function for Silver from XPS Spectrum

Physics Procedia

Volumn 32, Issue , 2012, Pages 165-172

  Tang, T ^a   Zhang, Z M ^b   Ding, Z J ^a   Yoshikawa, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

effective energy loss function; extended Landau approach; Monte Carlo simulation; sub shell photoelectron; XPS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996838672     PISSN: 18753884     EISSN: 18753892     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phpro.2012.03.536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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