Ff. Umarov et al., THE DETERMINATION OF THE SPATIAL EXTENSION OF ATOMIC STEPS ON THE SINGLE-CRYSTAL SURFACE BY GLANCING ION-SCATTERING, Vacuum, 44(9), 1993, pp. 889-891
By use of computer simulation the features of the correlated glancing
scattering of medium energy ions by the imperfect surface of a single
crystal have been investigated. It has been shown that, from the corre
lation of the experimental and calculated energy distributions of the
scattered particles, one may determine a spatial extension of the isol
ated atomic steps on the single crystal surface damaged by the ion bom
bardment.