Deep Impurities with Collision Delay

Author(s):  
Klaus Morawetz

The linearised nonlocal kinetic equation is solved analytically for impurity scattering. The resulting response function provides the conductivity, plasma oscillation and Fermi momentum. It is found that virial corrections nearly compensate the wave-function renormalizations rendering the conductivity and plasma mode unchanged. Due to the appearance of the correlated density, the Luttinger theorem does not hold and the screening length is influenced. Explicit results are given for a typical semiconductor. Elastic scattering of electrons by impurities is the simplest but still very interesting dissipative mechanism in semiconductors. Its simplicity follows from the absence of the impurity dynamics, so that individual collisions are described by the motion of an electron in a fixed potential.

Author(s):  
Fox T. R. ◽  
R. Levi-Setti

At an earlier meeting [1], we discussed information retrieval in the scanning transmission ion microscope (STIM) compared with the electron microscope at the same energy. We treated elastic scattering contrast, using total elastic cross sections; relative damage was estimated from energy loss data. This treatment is valid for “thin” specimens, where the incident particles suffer only single scattering. Since proton cross sections exceed electron cross sections, a given specimen (e.g., 1 μg/cm2 of carbon at 25 keV) may be thin for electrons but “thick” for protons. Therefore, we now extend our previous analysis to include multiple scattering. Our proton results are based on the calculations of Sigmund and Winterbon [2], for 25 keV protons on carbon, using a Thomas-Fermi screened potential with a screening length of 0.0226 nm. The electron results are from Crewe and Groves [3] at 30 keV.


1993 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Thobel ◽  
L. Baudry ◽  
F. Dessenne ◽  
M. Charef ◽  
R. Fauquembergue

1975 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 657-665
Author(s):  
S. R. Seshadri

The parametric excitation of the longitudinal, plasma mode and the transverse, electromagnetic mode in a warm, uniform plasma is investigated for the case in which the pump wave is another electromagnetic mode. The three interacting waves are assumed to propagate in the same direction. The longitudinal mode has two branches, namely, the electron plasma mode and the ion plasma mode. The parametric coupling of the longitudinal and the transverse waves in the presence of the pump wave leads to instabilities of the interacting waves. Illustrative numerical results are presented for the parametric instabilities of the electron plasma oscillation which is a part of the electron plasma mode and those of the ion acoustic waves and the ion plasma oscillations which are parts of the ion plasma mode. The ion acoustic wave is efficiently excited when the pump and the idler wave frequencies are approximately equal to one and a half times the electron plasma frequency.


1975 ◽  
Vol 251 (2) ◽  
pp. 344-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Dück ◽  
W. Treu ◽  
W. Galster ◽  
E. Haindl ◽  
F. Siller ◽  
...  

1993 ◽  
Vol 74 (10) ◽  
pp. 6281-6288 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Baudry ◽  
J. L. Thobel ◽  
M. Charef ◽  
F. Dessenne ◽  
P. Bourel

The variational method of Hulthèn has been applied to the elastic scattering of slow electrons by helium atoms, the effect of exchange being taken into account in calculating the zero-order phase shift. Satisfactory agreement has been obtained with the results given by numerical integration of the integro-differential equation determining the scattering when the total wave function is taken to be completely antisymmetric. Even at very low electron energies (0·04 eV) the agreement with experiment is good.


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