Pg. Datskos et al., TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENCE OF ELECTRON-ATTACHMENT AND DETACHMENT IN SF6 AND C-C4F6, The Journal of chemical physics, 99(11), 1993, pp. 8607-8616
In the temperature, T, range of 300-600 K and the mean electron energy
range [is-an-element-of] of 0.19-1.0 eV, the total electron attachmen
t rate constant for SF6 and c-C4F6 measured in dilute mixtures with N2
, is virtually independent of T. Under the same experimental condition
s the stabilized SF6- anion does not undergo autodetachment but the st
abilized c-C4F6- anion undergoes a profound increase in autodetachment
(by about four orders of magnitude). This difference between the SF6-
and the c-C4F6- anions is attributed to the larger electron affinity
of the SF6 molecule compared to the c-C4F6 molecule. The heat-activate
d autodetachment for c-C4F6- is related to increases in the internal e
nergy content of the C-C4F6- anion and is found to have an activation
energy of 0.237 eV. The ''limiting electric field strength'' of SF6 wa
s found to increase by approximately 11% as T was increased from 300 t
o 600 K.