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- Title
Effect of the emitter temperature and emitter atom ionization potential on field evaporation.
- Authors
Golubev, O.; Loginov, M.
- Abstract
The field evaporation of nickel, nichrome alloy, and tungsten carbide at different temperatures is studied with a time-of-flight atomic probe and a field emission microscope. The charge of evaporating ions does not depend on the emitter temperature: it decreases with decreasing evaporating field F ev. If F ev does not vary with temperature, so does the charge of the ions. In the case of multicomponent emitters with different ionization potentials of the components, the components evaporate at the same values of F ev in the form of atoms and ionized clusters. The reason for such behavior is that the initial evaporation of the easily ionizable component decreases the binding energy of harder-to-ionize ones to the point where they can evaporate at the same field.
- Subjects
EVAPORATION (Chemistry); IONIZATION (Atomic physics); NICKEL; TUNGSTEN carbide-cobalt alloys; FIELD emission
- Publication
Technical Physics, 2006, Vol 51, Issue 9, p1215
- ISSN
1063-7842
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S1063784206090180