A COINCIDENCE COUNTING STUDY OF POLYATOMIC ION INDUCED SPUTTERING Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Coincidence counting methods were used to examine the desorption of secondary ions from a CsI surface via keV atomic and polyatomic projectile impacts. A correlation between the emission of I and CsI2 secondary ions was attributed to the common chemical origin of the ions. The degree to which I and CsI2 were correlated was observed to change as a function of the kinetic energy and complexity of the primary ion as well as the yield of I. This is attributed to a change in the relative importance of competing ion formation processes as a function of the energy in the desorption site.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

  • PARK, M. A., COX, B. D., & SCHWEIKERT, E. A.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • PARK, MA||COX, BD||SCHWEIKERT, EA

publication date

  • June 1992