High sensitivity sputter neutral mass spectrometry - sputtering of neutral mixed clusters from gold-aluminum alloys

Title: High sensitivity sputter neutral mass spectrometry - sputtering of neutral mixed clusters from gold-aluminum alloys
Creator: King, B. V.; Moore, J. F.; Veryovkin, I. V.; Pellin, M. J.
Relation: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms Vol. 317, Issue A, p. 115-120
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2013.06.026
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2013
Description: We have used the surface sensitivity of laser sputter neutral mass spectrometry to make measurements of clusters sputtered from AuAl alloys surfaces with high dynamic range. Polycrystalline AuAl₄ and Au₄Al were bombarded with 15 keV Ar+ at 60° incidence, and the resulting secondary neutral yield distributions were measured using laser postionization mass spectrometry. Neutral clusters containing up to 28 atoms were observed and exhibited an odd–even variation in signal dependent on the stability of the photoion. Clusters sputtered from Au₄Al were gold rich compared to the substrate and the yield of neutral clusters containing n atoms, Y_n, was found to follow a power in n, i.e. Y_n ∝ n^−δ, where the exponent δ was approximately 3.4.
Subject: spluttering; sputter neutral mass specronomy; clusters; gold
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1298579
Identifier: uon:19698
Identifier: ISSN:0168-583X
Language: eng
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