V. Blum et al., THE AUGER (AUTOIONIZATION) SPECTRA EXCITED BY ARGON AND NEON ION-BOMBARDMENT OF A MAGNESIUM SURFACE, Journal of physics. Condensed matter, 6(45), 1994, pp. 9677-9688
The Auger (autoionization) spectra produced by bombarding a magnesium
target with argon and neon ions of energy in the range 200 eV-5 keV ar
e reported. The observed spectra of both gases contained considerable
fine structure broadly similar to that observed in spectra from alumin
um and silicon targets. The Mg spectra contained structure not previou
sly reported, which could be indexed as part of a series of transition
s from an excited state in Mg0 to states at and above the ground state
in Mg+. The variation of the heights of the main peaks was examined a
s a function of incident ion energy. The graph of peak height against
incidence energy showed a sharp maximum for Ar while this was not the
case for either Ne or Mg. The rare gas Auger peaks increased in energy
with increasing incident ion energy and the shift could be explained
in terms of a simple Doppler model appropriate to the strongly forward
scattered experimental conditions used here. No systematic variation
in the energies of the Mg peaks was observed.