Layer-resolved depth profiling at single crystal surfaces

Autor: Torgny Gustafsson, B. W. Busch, W. H. Schulte, Christian Uebing
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 183:88-96
ISSN: 0168-583X
Popis: The stopping power and straggling of ions in channeling and blocking directions depend on multiple scattering and impact parameter dependent effects. Therefore, the extraction of high-resolution depth profiles of single crystals based on simulation of the energy spectra obtained from medium-energy ion scattering (MEIS) is not straightforward. An alternative is to analyze the MEIS angular (blocking) scattering yields from several angular configurations. We have applied this technique to obtain layer-resolved depth profiles in a dilute substitutional alloy, Fe-9 wt% W (1 0 0), and in an alloy with a small mass difference between the base metals, Fe-15 wt% Cr (1 0 0). As a result, layer-resolved depth profiling combined with conventional MEIS structural analysis allowed a detailed study of surface segregation phenomena in these systems.
Databáze: OpenAIRE