MASS SELECTION OF NEUTRAL CLUSTERS IN LOW-ENERGY CLUSTER BEAM DEPOSITION EXPERIMENTS - IS IT REALISTIC

Authors
ROUX JF CABAUD B FUCHS G GUILLOT D HOAREAU A MELINON P
Citation
Jf. Roux et al., MASS SELECTION OF NEUTRAL CLUSTERS IN LOW-ENERGY CLUSTER BEAM DEPOSITION EXPERIMENTS - IS IT REALISTIC, Applied physics letters, 64(10), 1994, pp. 1212-1214
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Applied physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036951
Volume
64
Issue
10
Year of publication
1994
Pages
1212 - 1214
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6951(1994)64:10<1212:MSONCI>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
The crucial problem in controlling and filtering the size of free neut ral clusters generated by a cluster source is studied in the particula r case of the Sattler source type. The present work shows that a veloc ity selector can be used to control the size of neutral clusters produ ced in the low-energy cluster beam deposition system. This velocity se lector is also used to measure the kinetic energy of free Bi clusters. The experimental results obtained for Bi clusters are compared with p revious theoretical predictions.