ON THE IONIZATION STATE OF FIELD EVAPORATED ATOMS AS MEASURED IN THE FIM-ATOM PROBE

1 July 1968

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 13 (1) , 29-32
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1652444

Abstract

Experiments to test the performance of an FIM‐atom probe have yielded data on the charge state of field‐evaporated atoms from clean tungsten and iridium surfaces. These data are presented and discussed in the light of current ideas about the process of field evaporation.

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