Interaction of slow multicharged ions with solid surfaces

A Arnau, F Aumayr, PM Echenique, M Grether… - Surface Science …, 1997 - Elsevier
The present report deals with the main aspects of the interaction of slow (impact velocity
typically below 1 au) multicharged ions (MCI) with atomically clean solid surfaces of metals …

Image potential in scanning transmission electron microscopy

A Rivacoba, N Zabala, J Aizpurua - Progress in surface science, 2000 - Elsevier
In the framework of the classical dielectric theory, the role of the image potential in electron
energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) of fast electrons commonly used in scanning transmission …

Wake potential in the vicinity of a surface

FJG de Abajo, PM Echenique - Physical Review B, 1992 - APS
The wake potential associated with the passage of a swift charged particle through matter in
the vicinity of a solid-vacuum surface is studied. Full results of the wake potential as a …

Semiclassical image potential at a solid surface

PM Echenique, RH Ritchie, N Barberan, J Inkson - Physical Review B, 1981 - APS
A surface dielectric function of a semi-infinite plane-bounded metal is defined in the spirit of
the plasmon-pole dielectric function of the bulk. It is modeled in such a way that the surface …

Dynamic screening of ions in solids

PM Echenique, FJG de Abajo, VH Ponce… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 1995 - Elsevier
The dynamic screening charge and potential induced by a charged particle moving through
or nearby condensed matter are central quantities required for an understanding of various …

Image force effects in electron microscopy

PM Echenique, A Howie - Ultramicroscopy, 1985 - Elsevier
PII: 0304-3991(85)90082-8 Page 1 Ultramicroscopy 16 (1985) 269-272 269 North-Holland,
Amsterdam SHORT NOTE IMAGE FORCE EFFECTS IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY PM …

Momentum transfer to small particles by passing electron beams

FJ García de Abajo - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2004 - APS
The force exerted on nanoparticles and atomic clusters by fast passing electrons like those
employed in transmission electron microscopes are calculated and integrated over time to …

Ab initio study of point defects in the strongly correlated system CoO

UD Wdowik - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2011 - APS
Density functional theory is applied to study the effect of substitutional Fe, Al, and In
impurities on the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of stoichiometric and …

Image potential for a tunneling electron

PM Echenique, A Gras-Marti, JR Manson, RH Ritchie - Physical Review B, 1987 - APS
The image potential appropriate to an electron tunneling from a metal into the conduction
band of an insulator is calculated with the many-body self-energy formalism developed by …

Force on a moving charge near a metal surface: effect of spatial dispersion

J Mahanty, P Summerside - Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics, 1980 - iopscience.iop.org
The hydrodynamic model is used to investigate the effect of spatial dispersion on the force
on a charge which is moving with constant velocity nu parallel to a metal surface. The …