Overview
- Features new ab initio methods for calculating the dielectric and energy loss functions
- Describes Monte Carlo strategies used for simulating the transport of charged particles in solid targets in great detail
- Includes numerous comparisons of results of the Monte Carlo simulations with the available experimental data
Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics (STMP, volume 290)
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This book describes the computational methods most frequently used to deal with the interaction of charged particles, notably electrons, with condensed matter. Both elastic and inelastic scattering phenomena are discussed, and methods for calculating the relevant cross sections are explained in a rigorous but simple way. It provides readers with all the information they need in order to write their own Monte Carlo code and to simulate the transport of fast particles in condensed matter. Many numerical and experimental examples are presented throughout the book.
The updated and extended fourth edition features ab initio methods for calculating dielectric function and energy loss function. Non-relativistic partial wave expansion method for calculating the differential elastic scattering cross section is also included in this new edition. It represents a very useful introduction to the relativistic partial wave expansion method, i.e., to the Mott theory, already discussed inthe previous editions of this book. Further details about the effects of spin-polarization on the differential elastic scattering cross section are included in this new edition. The multiple reflection method is extended to the general case of a system composed of a set of layers of different materials and thicknesses. Analytical expressions are provided for calculating the backscattering coefficient of multilayers. New results are presented, notably about Monte Carlo simulations of reflection electron energy loss spectra and of the radial dose deposited along the track of ions impinging on materials.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transport of Energetic Electrons in Solids
Book Subtitle: Computer Simulation with Applications to Materials Analysis and Characterization
Authors: Maurizio Dapor
Series Title: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37242-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37241-4Published: 11 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37244-5Published: 12 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37242-1Published: 10 August 2023
Series ISSN: 0081-3869
Series E-ISSN: 1615-0430
Edition Number: 4
Number of Pages: XXI, 269
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Solid State Physics, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics