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Secondary Electron Emission of Liquid Insulators
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The Time Dispersion of Secondary Electron Emission
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Encapsulated source contact dose estimates incorporating secondary electron emission
Secondary electron emission generated at the surface of thin material from interaction with gamma rays form a significant component of the surface dose. The intensity of this emission is known to vary with material composition and incident radiation energies. The goal of this research effort is to …
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Interaction cross sections needed for simulation of secondary electron emission spectra from thin metal foils after fast proton impact
Monte Carlo simulations of secondary electron emission from thin metal foils after fast proton impact require reliable interaction cross sections with the target under consideration. Total and energy differential inelastic cross sections have been derived for aluminum, copper, and gold thin-metal …
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A Study of High Energy-Resolution and at Low Primary Energies of the Secondary Electron Emission From (100) Tungsten
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Anode Materials for High Power Microwave Devices
… HPMs can significantly upset or even destroy electronic devices within military and commercial systems prompting applications for nonlethal directed energy weaponry. Cathodes and anodes are the two critical components and the engine of the HPM which makes this application possible. The decay …
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Radio frequency driven direct current electron beam source
A new type of electron beam source employing ion-induced secondary electron emission from cold cathodes is developed for feature charge neutralization during plasma etching. A low pressure (approximately 2 – 20 mTorr) inductively coupled plasma provides ions which impinge on a high secondary …
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Observation of plasma sheath modulation in the plasma bipolar junction transistor
… model developed herein, a 359% increase in the secondary electron emission coefficient of the exposed silicon surface is inferred. Additionally, the pressure dependence of these devices is explored, with the data suggesting that smaller devices would exhibit both faster switching and higher …
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Emitting Wall Boundary Conditions in Continuum Kinetic Simulations: Unlocking the Effects of Energy-Dependent Material Emission on the Plasma Sheath
… the plasma sheath forms and regulates the electron and ion fluxes into the material. Emission from the material has the potential to change sheath structure drastically, and must be modeled rigorously to produce accurate predictions of the fluxes into the wall. Continuum kinetic codes offer …
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Ion flux maps and helicon source efficiency in the VASIMR VX-100 experiment using a moving Langmuir probe array
… to pulse in an effort to find optimal settings. Secondary electron emission was found to be an important factor that artificially enhanced the measured flux at large negative bias voltages. The most accurate bias voltages were found to be around -20 volts where the flux enhancing effects were …
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Monte Carlo Simulations of Electron Transport in 3D Solids and Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Mechanics of 2D materials
The aim of this thesis is the study of electronic transport and mechanical properties of materials using computer simulations. In particular, we dealt with the charge transport in semiconduc- tor and metallic samples and with the peeling of a graphene layer from bulk graphite. The computational …
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BEAMED: A Bench for Automated Measurements of Electrical Discharges - A New Standard for Paschen Curves
… environmental science, affecting systems such as electronics, power grids, and atmospheric phenomena. Despite extensive studies and applications of Paschen's law, current methodologies for experimental Paschen tests in direct current (DC) conditions lack standardized practices. This thesis …
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Computer simulation of electron transport in solids with applications to materials analysis and characterization
… the MC strategies concerns the study of the electron-solid interaction (transport MC). Transport MC allows predicting the behavior of charged particles traveling through the matter and it has been widely utilized in many applications. Among them, on the side of the chemical analysis of the …
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ΘΕΩΡΗΤΙΚΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΗΣ ΣΥΜΠΕΡΙΦΟΡΑΣ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΚΚΕΝΩΣΗΣ ΣΕ ΜΙΚΡΑ ΔΙΑΚΕΝΑ
… THE EVOLUTION OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IONS AND ELECTRONS ISDESCRIBED BY ONE-DIMENSIONAL CONTINUITY EQUATION IN CONJUCTION WITH THE POISSON'S EQUATIONS WHICH ARE RESOLVED BY AN ACCURATE NUMERICAL METHOD. THE EFFECTS OF IONIZATION, RECOMBINATION, ATTACHMENT AND ION SECONDARY-ELECTRON EMISSION FROM …
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Charging of aggregate grains in astrophysical environments.
… due to the constant collisions with free moving electrons and ions. Cosmic dust can also be charged by other means such as UV and X-ray radiation, and secondary electron emission due to the impact of energetic electrons and ions. The presence of charged dust particles alters the properties of the …
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PIC simulation of a ceramic-lined Hall-effect thruster
… code treats single and double ions, neutrals and electrons as particles, moved forward by a leapfrog algorithm at each timestep, matching the lowest of the plasma and the cyclotron times. At the end of each timestep, a successive-over-relaxation algorithm solves the Gauss' formulation of the …
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Ferromagnetism of novel ultrathin films and multilayers: A study of Ru/C(0001) and Fe/Mn/Fe/Pd(100) using magneto-optic Kerr effect and spin-sensitive electron spectroscopies
… on the C(0001) graphite surface is studied using electron induced spin-polarized secondary electron emission (SPSEE). Below a surface Curie temperature of approximately 250K we find ferromagnetic order of the Ru monolayer. The growth mode of Ru on C(0001) is investigated by Auger electron …
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Studies of coaxial multipactor in the presence of a magnetic field
Multipactor discharges consists of electron multiplication between two surfaces by secondary electron emission in resonance with an alternating electric field. They are detrimental to the performance of radio frequency (RF) systems, such as the ICRF (ion cyclotron range of frequencies) antennas for …
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Immersed Finite Element Particle-In-Cell Modeling of Surface Charging in Rarefied Plasmas
… in dusty plasma. The second one concerns a secondary electron emission experiment. The simulation includes detailed experimental setup in a vacuum chamber and the results are compared against experimental data. The simulation is used to determine the facility error in experiments. The third …
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