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Low-energy ion scattering at surfaces

01 May 1993-Surface Science Reports (North-Holland)-Vol. 17, Iss: 4, pp 213-303
TL;DR: The field of low-energy ion scattering for surface interactions at metals, alloys, catalysts and semiconductors is reviewed in this article, where the basic principles, classical scattering theory, the effect of shadowing and blocking, and some of the computer simulation programs are briefly described.
About: This article is published in Surface Science Reports.The article was published on 1993-05-01. It has received 531 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Low-energy ion scattering & Scattering.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of surface composition analysis by low-energy ion scattering (LEIS) is presented, where the authors summarize the present understanding of the factors that determine the ion fraction of the scattered particles in LEIS, i.e. charge exchange processes.

421 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, structural models for the different surfaces of ZnO surfaces are proposed and related to the stability and reactivity of the surfaces, based on these results, structural models are proposed.

367 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a detailed discussion of the scattering of fast atoms and ions from solid surfaces under a grazing angle of incidence is presented Theoretical and experimental results are used to demonstrate that collisions employing this scattering geometry provide interesting new phenomena and insights into atom-surface interactions.

329 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the main aspects of the interaction of slow (impact velocity typically below 1 a.u.) multicharged ions (MCI) with atomically clean solid surfaces of metals, semiconductors and insulators are discussed.

291 citations

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TL;DR: A review of the background physics of the process and the development of the technique is described in this article, and a brief discussion of the high energy forward scattering version of the X-ray photoelectron diffraction-XPD is included, but the most of the review is concerned with the lower energy backscattering method more relevant to the determination of detailed adsorption sites on surfaces.
Abstract: Photoelectron diffraction is the name given to the phenomenon resulting from the coherent interference of the directly emitted component of an electron wavefield, emerging from an atom as a result of core level photoemission, with other components elastically scattered by surrounding atoms. Experimental characterization of this effect provides information which can be used to provide quantitative determinations of the structure of surfaces, and particularly of adsorbed species on surfaces, in an element-specific fashion. Since the initial. Demonstration of the phenomenon in the late 1970s, an extensive methodology for surface structure determination has been developed. In this review the background physics of the process, and the development of the technique is described. A brief discussion of the high energy forward scattering version of the technique (X-ray photoelectron diffraction-XPD), which utilizes zero-order diffraction effects, is included, but the most of the review is concerned with the lower energy backscattering method more relevant to the determination of detailed adsorption sites on surfaces. In addition to the general theoretical, experimental and methodology background, a number of the more recent developments are described including use of 'direct inversion' methods for (approximate) structure determination, including a survey of photoelectron holography, and the realization of chemical shift photoelectron diffraction to allow structure determinations of surfaces including atoms of one element in more than one inequivalent site. All of the developments are illustrated with specific examples, mainly of molecular and atomic adsorbates on metal surfaces.

279 citations

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