Monte Carlo simulation of backscattered electrons and energy from thick targets and surface films

Study on electron scattering in solid targets using accurate transport cross-sections

“…The knowledge of the collision processes can be encapsulated in scattering cross-sections generally used either to simulate electron trajectories via Monte Carlo (MC) simulations [6][7][8][9][10] or to provide stopping powers and transport cross-sections needed for analytic transport theory [11,12]. In fact, the transport cross-section is a quantity of prime importance.…”

Transmission and backscattering energy distributions of slow electrons from metallic targets

“…Such a behavior has been reported in earlier Monte-Carlo simulations of electron penetration in metals [2,9,17,18]. Interestingly as well, the variation of the film thickness leads to a variation of the backscattering coefficient [4,8].…”

Improved expression for calculating electron transport cross sections

“…Many investigations were carried out using Monte Carlo simulation of electron transport in solids [4,7,8]. Nevertheless much effort has also been devoted in recent years to supply analytical descriptions of electron transport [2,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15].…”