ION-PHOTON EMISSION FROM METALS IMPLANTED WITH IONS OF REACTIVE ELEMENTS

The regularities of ion-photon emission in continuum spectra observed under keV energy reactive ion bombardment of metal surfaces have been studied experimentally. It has been shown that the intensity of contin uum radiation and in some cases even the shape of the optical spectrum are determined by the kind of bombarding ion. The spectra of the radi ation under investigation were shown to contain important information on the relative reactivity of different metal atoms in heterogeneous r eactions such as surface oxidation. A technique for the application of continuum radiation for determining the parameters of the distributio n of implanted foreign atoms is proposed.