Spatial Distribution of Orientation of Fast Ions Excited by Surface-Grazing Collisions
- 20 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 38 (25) , 1473-1476
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.38.1473
Abstract
We have investigated the grazing-angle scattering of fast ions from solid surfaces. We establish that the circular polarization of light emitted from the scattered ions, and hence the ion orientation, varies strongly with the ion scattering angle. We show that the nearly elastic ion-surface collisions produce maximum allowed orientation of states with very small alignment.Keywords
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