Material properties particularly suited to be measured with helium scattering: selected examples from 2D materials, van der Waals heterostructures, glassy materials …

B Holst, G Alexandrowicz, N Avidor… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Helium Atom Scattering (HAS) and Helium Spin-Echo scattering (HeSE), together helium
scattering, are well established, but non-commercial surface science techniques. They are …

Atom scattering as a probe of the surface electron-phonon interaction at conducting surfaces

JR Manson, G Benedek, S Miret-Artés - Surface Science Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
An atomic projectile colliding with a surface at kinetic energies in the thermal or
hyperthermal range interacts with and is reflected by the electronic density well in front of the …

Characterization and Decomposition of the Natural van der Waals SnSb2Te4 under Compression

JA Sans, R Vilaplana, EL Da Silva, C Popescu… - Inorganic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
High pressure X-ray diffraction, Raman scattering, and electrical measurements, together
with theoretical calculations, which include the analysis of the topological electron density …

Electron–phonon coupling in superconducting 1T-PdTe2

G Anemone, P Casado Aguilar, M Garnica… - npj 2D Materials and …, 2021 - nature.com
We have determined the electron–phonon interaction in type II Dirac semimetallic 1T-PdTe2
by means of helium atom scattering. While 1T-PdTe2 is isostructural with 1T-PtTe2, only the …

Origin of the electron–phonon interaction of topological semimetal surfaces measured with helium atom scattering

G Benedek, S Miret-Artés, JR Manson… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
He atom scattering has been demonstrated to be a sensitive probe of the electron–phonon
interaction parameter λ at metal and metal-overlayer surfaces. Here it is shown that the …

Atom-surface van der Waals potentials of topological insulators and semimetals from scattering measurements

A Tamtögl, A Ruckhofer, D Campi, W Allison… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The phenomenology of resonant scattering has been known since the earliest experiments
upon scattering of atomic beams from surfaces and is a means of obtaining experimental …

Terahertz surface modes and electron-phonon coupling on (111)

A Ruckhofer, D Campi, M Bremholm, P Hofmann… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of the surface vibrational modes
of the topological insulator Bi 2 Se 3 with particular emphasis on the low-energy region …

Measuring the electron–phonon interaction in two-dimensional superconductors with he-atom scattering

G Benedek, JR Manson, S Miret-Artés, A Ruckhofer… - Condensed …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Helium-atom scattering (HAS) spectroscopy from conducting surfaces has been shown to
provide direct information on the electron–phonon interaction, more specifically the mass …

Surface electronic corrugation of a one-dimensional topological metal: Bi (114)

SJ Schmutzler, A Ruckhofer, WE Ernst… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The surface of Bi (114) is a striking example where the reduced dimensionality gives rise to
structural rearrangement and new states at the surface. Here, we present a study of the …

Surface properties of 1T-TaS2 and contrasting its electron-phonon coupling with TlBiTe2 from helium atom scattering

P Maier, NJ Hourigan, A Ruckhofer… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
We present a detailed helium atom scattering study of the charge-density wave (CDW)
system and transition metal dichalcogenide 1T-TaS2. In terms of energy dissipation, we …