Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Manifestation of empty electron states in the total current spectra of silver

  • Surfaces, Electron and Ion Emission
  • Published:
Technical Physics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

A combined analysis is made of the low-energy total current and secondary electron emission spectra at the initial stage of formation of a silver coating on a W(110) surface. It is shown that the features observed in the spectra are related to the energy structure of the density of empty states lying above the vacuum level. The dynamics of changes in these features in the total current spectra as the film thickness increases indicates that at the initial stage the silver coating is characterized by the Ag(111) orientation, but as the thickness increases, the Ag(110) orientation predominates.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. I. M. Bronshtein and B. S. Fraiman, Secondary Electron Emission [in Russian], Nauka, Moscow (1969), 386 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  2. M. V. Kremkov, Corpuscular Low-Energy Diagnostics of a Solid Surface [in Russian], FAN, Tashkent (1986), 163 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  3. O. M. Artamonov, O. M. Smirnov, and A. N. Terekhov, Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Fiz. 46, 1383 (1982).

    Google Scholar 

  4. S. A. Komolov, Integral Methods of Secondary Electron Spectroscopy [in Russian], Leningrad State University Press, Leningrad, (1986), 180 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  5. S. A. Komolov, Total Current Spectroscopy of Surfaces (Gordon and Breach, Philadelphia, 1992), p. 257.

    Google Scholar 

  6. R. Lasser, N. V. Smith, and R. L. Benbow, Phys. Rev. B 21, 1895 (1981).

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. O. M. Artamonov and A. N. Terekhov, Fiz. Tverd. Tela (Leningrad) 28, 862 (1986) [Sov. Phys. Solid State 28, 479 (1986)].

    Google Scholar 

  8. G. Chiarello, R. G. Agostino, A. Amoddeo et al., J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom. 70, 75 (1994).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. S. A. Komolov, N. B. Gerasimova, A. O. Morozov et al., Phys. Low-Dim. Struct. 10, 35 (1997).

    Google Scholar 

  10. E. Bauer, H. Poppa, G. Todd et al., J. Appl. Phys. 48, 3773 (1977).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  11. C. Kunz, in Optical Properties of Solids. New Developments, edited by B.O. Seraphin (American Elsevier, New York, 1976), p. 499.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Research Institute of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, 198904, St. Petersburg, Russia

    V. A. Novolodskii, O. M. Artamonov & S. A. Komolov

Authors
  1. V. A. Novolodskii
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. O. M. Artamonov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. S. A. Komolov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 69, 99–102 (July 1999)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Novolodskii, V.A., Artamonov, O.M. & Komolov, S.A. Manifestation of empty electron states in the total current spectra of silver. Tech. Phys. 44, 828–830 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1259358

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1259358

Keywords

Search

Navigation