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Positive Ion Emission Accompanying UV Irradiation of Single Crystal Mgo and NanO3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

D. R. Ermer ,
J. J. Shin ,
S. C. Langford  and
J. T. Dickinson
D. R. Ermer
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2814
J. J. Shin
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2814
S. C. Langford
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2814
J. T. Dickinson
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2814
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Abstract

Although MgO is much more resistant to radiolysis by 248-nm photons than NaNO3, the ion emission processes at low fluence have much in common: both materials yield high energy ions (> 5 eV kinetic energy) with a strongly nonlinear fluence dependence. We report time-of-flight measurements of quadrupole mass-selected Mg+ from polished, single crystal MgO and Na+ from cleaved, single crystal NaNO3. At fluences between 10 and 1000 mJ/cm2, the Mg+ intensities show a strongly nonlinear fluence dependence which decreases to roughly second order behavior at fluences above 100 mJ/cm2. The Na+ intensities display third or fourth order emission kinetics throughout the experimental range of fluences. We attribute these emissions to cations adsorbed atop surface electron traps where the cation is ejected when the underlying trap is photo-ionized. The potential energy of this defect configuration accounts for the observed ion kinetic energies. However, the direct photo-ionization of surface vacancy/adsorbed ion defects with 5 eV photons should not be possible. Thus we propose that emission requires the photo-ionization of nearby electron traps, followed by photo-induced charge transfer to the empty traps. We show that a sequence of single-photon absorption events [involving photo-ionization, charge transfer, and electron retrapping] accounts for the strongly nonlinear fluence dependence.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 397: Symposium B – Advanced laser Processing of Materials-Fundamentals and Applications , 1995 , 33
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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