Organic gas/surface interaction: Fraction (γ value) of the kinetic energy used for ionization
- 1 February 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 108 (5) , 1940-1943
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.475574
Abstract
When hyperthermal beams of organic compounds strike a heated Re surface, their positive ions are scattered from that surface. Within the energy range studied (several eV), the efficiency of ion production is a function of incident kinetic energy (E k ) and surface temperature (T s ). This indicates that the ionization probability (I) correlates well with both E k and 1/T s . The conversion efficiency of translational to ionization energy in collisions of superthermal molecules with a surface was studied from the resulting ionization behavior. The γ value, which is defined as a fraction of the kinetic energy used for ionization, is estimated from two unique E k and T s correlations. The gases used in this study were acetone, benzene, naphthalene, and α-pinene. The γ value was molecule dependent. For example, at one extreme is the α-pinene molecule whose γ value when derived from the I vs E k relationship is 0.13 [the I(T s ) dependence gives γ=0.10 under the condition that E k =4.5 eV ]. Thus the γ values estimated from the two independent methods agree fairly well.Keywords
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