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A magnetic mass spectrometer with a field ion source has been used to study the steady-state field evaporation of molybdenum at a temperature of 1000–2000 K. Ions of all seven molybdenum isotopes have been observed in the process of evaporation; only low-charge ions Mo+2 and Mo+ have been detected. The critical ionization distances and ionization regions for single- and double-charge Mo ions have been identified based on the measured ion energies and the experimentally determined intensity of the evaporation field. It has been demonstrated that ions are produced in the process of field evaporation of surface atoms at certain distances from the emitter surface in a very narrow spatial region.
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Original Russian Text © O.L. Golubev, N.M. Blashenkov, 2017, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2017, Vol. 87, No. 8, pp. 1238–1242.
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Golubev, O.L., Blashenkov, N.M. Isotopic ratio of evaporated ions, critical ionization distances, and ionization regions in the process of the field evaporation of molybdenum at high temperatures. Tech. Phys. 62, 1250–1254 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784217080126
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