Mv. Gomoyunova et al., ELECTRON-STIMULATED EFFECTS IN HTS SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE BI2SR2CACU2O8+X, Journal of electron spectroscopy and related phenomena, 68, 1994, pp. 479-484
Modifications of elemental composition of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x singlecrysta
lline surface under medium energy (3keV) electron irradiation have bee
n investigated by AES. The doses reached 10(3)C/cm2. It is shown, that
electron bombardment leads to dissociation of the target material, di
splaying in the decrease of Bi content and increase of Sr, Cu and Ca o
nes. This effect is principally unthermal and explained in terms of Bi
-O bond disruption in the upper layer of a crystal.