Pa. Demirev et al., ION DESORPTION FROM ORGANIC AND INORGANIC TARGETS INDUCED BY 100 KEV GOLD CLUSTER IONS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 88(1-2), 1994, pp. 138-142
The emission of different secondary ions from inorganic (CsBr) and org
anic (10(3) u peptide - valinomycin) targets is monitored as a functio
n of the number of atoms of impacting Au(n)- cluster ions (n = 1 to 5)
at constant energy of 100 keV. A method for determination of the mult
iplicities (defined here as the number of ions of the same type emitte
d per impact event) is described. The multiplicity is a measure of the
ion emission probability in a single impact event and thus may provid
e evidence for ''cooperative'' effects in polyatomic ion impact induce
d sputtering.