1984 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Energy Dependence of the Ionisation Coefficient in SIMS
Authors : R. F. Garrett, R. J. MacDonald, D. J. O’Connor
Published in: Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry SIMS IV
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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If the process of secondary ion formation is viewed as one in which the secondary ion is formed amongst the sputtered flux from the surface and then survives the outgoing trajectory to be analysed, we can write the yield in the energy range E to E + dE, and angle range θ to θ + dθ as (1) $${{\rm{Y}}^ + }\left( {{\rm{E,}}\theta } \right){\rm{dEd}}\theta = {\rm{N}}\left( {{\rm{E,}}\theta } \right){{\rm{R}}^ + }\left( {{\rm{E,}}\theta } \right){\rm{P}}\left( {{\rm{E,}}\theta } \right){\rm{dEd}}\theta$$ where ⇅(E,θ) is the sputtered atom fluxR+(E,θ) is the probability of ionisation in the ejection processP(E,θ) is the probability of surviving the outgoing trajectory in an ionised state.