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Determination of electron inelastic mean free path of three transition metals from reflection electron energy loss spectroscopy spectrum measurement data

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The energy loss functions (ELFs) of three transition metals (Cr, Co and Pd) have been derived from reflection electron energy loss spectroscopy spectrum with a theoretical analysis of the measured data [Xu et al., J. Appl. Phys. 123, 043306 (2018)]. In this work, we update our previous ELFs in a wider photon energy region (0–200 eV) with a better accuracy, which is verified by sum rules and a root-mean-square deviation. The electron inelastic mean free paths (IMFPs) of Cr, Co and Pd have been calculated with the obtained ELFs by adopting a dielectric response theory. We employ both the single-pole approximation and full Penn algorithm for the calculation of IMFPs, and the calculated results are compared with other references.

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Contribution to the Topical Issue “Many Particle Spectroscopy of Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Surfaces (2018)”, edited by Károly Tőkési, Béla Paripás, Gábor Pszota, and Andrey V. Solov’yov.

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Yang, L., Tőkési, K., Da, B. et al. Determination of electron inelastic mean free path of three transition metals from reflection electron energy loss spectroscopy spectrum measurement data. Eur. Phys. J. D 73, 21 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2018-90551-6

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