Identification of Auger mechanisms responsible for low energy electron emission from graphene on copper using Auger-gamma coincidence spectroscopy
| Autor: | Alex H. Weiss, A. R. Koymen, Philip A. Sterne, R. W. Gladen, A. J. Fairchild, Varghese Anto Chirayath |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Auger electron spectroscopy
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena. 251:147095 |
| ISSN: | 0368-2048 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.elspec.2021.147095 |
| Popis: | We have applied positron annihilation induced Auger-gamma coincidence spectroscopy to identify important mechanisms responsible for the emission of low energy electrons following the sudden creation of holes in bilayer graphene on copper substrate. The novel surface spectroscopic method measures the energy of the Doppler shifted annihilation gamma photon in coincidence with the Auger electron emitted following the relaxation of the hole created by the annihilation of a surface electron with a surface trapped positron. By extracting and theoretically modelling the annihilation gamma spectra coincident with low energy electrons, we associate majority of the intensity in the low energy (7 eV–25 eV) region of the Auger spectrum to electron emission following Auger decays of 2s holes in adsorbed oxygen and deep valence holes in graphene. We provide additional support to this conclusion by showing that most of the Auger electrons with energy less than ∼ 25 eV are coincident with gamma photons with small Doppler shift (511 keV–512 keV) indicating that the primary electron whose annihilation resulted in low energy Auger electron emission had small momentum parallel to the gamma emission direction. On the other hand, majority of the Auger electrons measured in coincidence with the photons having maximum Doppler shift (515 keV–521 keV) were emitted following the decay of core holes (C 1s and O 1s). By selecting annihilation gamma photons coincident only with the O KVV (from surface adsorbed oxygen), C KVV (graphene), and Cu MVV (copper substrate) Auger electrons, we have also experimentally derived the energy spectrum of Doppler shifted gamma photons resulting from the annihilation of positrons with 1s electrons of O, 1s electrons of C and 3p electrons of Cu respectively. Model Doppler broadened gamma spectra produced using ab-initio calculations agree well with the experimentally derived line shapes. This demonstrates the ability of Auger-gamma coincidence method to experimentally resolve the Doppler broadened annihilation gamma spectrum from surfaces into its veiled electronic level constituents which has, heretofore, relied solely on theoretical analysis. Our results also demonstrate that the line shape of the Doppler broadened annihilation gamma peak reflect the chemical composition of the topmost atomic layer and can thus be used to characterize both external and inaccessible surfaces of porous materials. |
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