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A general approach to the description of energy losses by a nonrelativistic electron moving near the interface between two media has been outlined. Described in the model approximation of permittivity have been particular cases of electron motion in a vacuum normal to the interface and along the interface at a nanometer distance from the boundary. For example, the rate of energy loss by the electron traveling in a vacuum at a distance of 0.5 nm from the interface is one to two orders of magnitude smaller than that for its motion in a metal or in a condensed organic medium. The general expressions derived are applicable to the description of the motion of electrons in nanosized objects.
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Original Russian Text © V.A. Smirnov, L.Ya. Bubnov, 2011, published in Khimiya Vysokikh Energii, 2011, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 16–20.
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Smirnov, V.A., Bubnov, L.Y. Energy losses by nonrelativistic electron near interface between two dielectrics. High Energy Chem 45, 13–17 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0018143911010164
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