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The yield of samarium (Sm) atoms under electron stimulated desorption from Sm layers adsorbed on the surface of oxidized tungsten was studied as a function of incident electron energy, surface coverage by samarium, degree of tungsten oxidation, and substrate temperature. The measurements were conducted by the time-of-flight technique with a surface ionization detector in the substrate temperature interval from 140 to 600 K. The yield vs. incident electron energy function has a resonance character. Overlapping resonance peaks of Sm atoms are observed at electron energies of 34 and 46 eV, which may be related to excitation of the Sm 5p and 5s levels. The Sm yield is a complex function of samarium coverage and substrate temperature. Sm atom peaks occur only in the Sm coverage range from 0 to 0.2 monolayers (ML), in which the yield passes through a maximum. The shape of the yield temperature dependence is a function of Sm coverage. For low Sm cover-ages (<0.07 ML), the yield decreases slowly with the temperature increasing to 270 K, after which it drops to zero at temperatures above 360 K. At higher coverages, the Sm yield passes through a maximum with increasing temperature and additional peaks appear at electron energies of 42, 54, and 84 eV, which can be assigned to excitation of the tungsten 5p and 5s levels. These peaks are most likely associated with desorption of SmO molecules, whose yield reaches a maximum at an Sm coverage of about 1 ML.
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Translated from Fizika Tverdogo Tela, Vol. 45, No. 5, 2003, pp. 930–936.
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Ageev, V.N., Kuznetsov, Y.A. & Potekhina, N.D. Samarium atom yield under electron-stimulated desorption from oxidized tungsten surface. Phys. Solid State 45, 976–982 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1575348
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