Anomalous electron energy loss in small spheres
- 20 October 1983
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics
- Vol. 16 (29) , 5729-5743
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3719/16/29/026
Abstract
In analogy to the case of optical absorption it is shown that inclusion of nonlocal surface effects results in a very large contribution to the energy loss of fast electrons scattered by a sphere. The scattering is found to be predominantly in the forward direction and is an order of magnitude larger than that calculated classically.Keywords
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