Experimental study and computer simulations of the energy loss straggling of slow ions in thin foils: Results for H+ and D+ in C, Si, Cu, Ag and Bi

Celedón, Carlos; Cantero, E. D.; Lantschner, G. H.; Arista, N. R.

doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2013.04.092

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“…(DFT) for a free electron gas [16], where the average stopping force is proportional to the projectile speed. Stochastic fluctuations in the stopping force are included through the energy-loss straggling, Ω 2 , which is proportional to the square of the projectile speed [25]. The proportionality constants of the stopping power and the energy loss straggling depend on the local electronic density visited by the projectile in its travel through the nanotube and/or the a-C substrate.…”

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Energy loss of H+ and H2+ beams in carbon nanotubes: a joint experimental and simulation study

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Carbon nanotube properties can be modified by ion irradiation; therefore it is important to know the manner in which ions deposit energy (how much and where) in the nanotubes. In this work, we have studied, experimentally and with a simulation code, the irradiation of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT), supported on a holey amorphous carbon (a-C) substrate, with low energy (2−10 keV/u) H + and H2 + molecular beams, impinging perpendicularly to the MWCNT axis. The energy distribution of protons traversing the nanotubes (either from the H + beam or dissociated from the H2 + beam) was measured by the transmission technique in the forward direction. Two well-differentiated peaks appear in the experimental energy-loss distribution of the fragments dissociated from the molecular H2 + beam, in correspondence to the ones detected with the proton beam. One is the low-energy loss peak (LELP), which has a symmetric width; the other is the high-energy loss peak (HELP), which shows an asymmetric broadening towards larger energy loss than the corresponding proton energy distribution. A semi-classical simulation, accounting for the main interaction processes (both elastic and inelastic), of the proton trajectories through the nanotube and the supporting substrate has been done, in order to elucidate the origin of these structures in the energy spectra. Tregarding the H + energy spectrum, the LELP corresponds to projectiles that travel in quasi-channelling motion through the most outer walls of the nanotubes and then pass thorugh the substrate holes, whereas the HELP results mostly from projectiles traversing only the a-C substrate, with the asymmetry broadening being due to a minor contribution of those protons that cross the a-C substrate after exiting the nanotube. The broadening of the peaks corresponding to dissociated fragments, with respect to that of the isolated protons, is the result of vicinage effects between the fragments, when travelling in quasi-channelling conditions through the outer layers of the nanotube, and Coulomb explosion just after exiting the target. The excellent agreement between the measured and the simulated energy spectra of the H + beam validates our simulation code in order to predict the energy deposited by ion beams in carbon nanotubes.

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Section: Origin Of the Peaks In The Energy Spectrummentioning

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