Reflection Electron Energy Loss Spectra beyond the optical limit》.pdf

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 352 (2015) 171–175 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B journal homepage: www.else /locate/nimb Reflection Electron Energy Loss Spectra beyond the optical limit Lucia Calliari a,⇑, Maurizio Dapor a, Giovanni Garberoglio a, Sergey Fanchenko b a European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*-FBK) and Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications (TIFPA-INFN), via Sommarive 18, I-38123 Trento, Italy b National Research Center ‘‘Kurchatov Institute’’, Kurchatov Square 1, 123182 Moscow, Russian Federation a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: A position-dependent Inverse Inelastic Mean Free Path (IIMFP), calculated according to the Chen–Kwei Received 25 June 2014 theory of inelastic scattering, is used to obtain Reflection Electron Energy Loss Spectra (REELS) by a Monte Received in revised form 9 October 2014 Carlo approach. The basic ingredient of the theory is the energy-loss and momentum-transfer dependent Accepted 29 November 2014 dielectric function, for which we use a plasmon-pole approximation to the Lindhard dielectric function. Available online 20 December 2014 The dependence on the momentum transfer enters by assuming a proper dispersion relation for the energy loss. Experiments reveal however that, beside energy loss, also plasmon damping disperses with Keywords: