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SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 471, Issue 1-3, Pages 219-224Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6028(00)00913-4
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ion-solid interactions; aluminum; sputtering
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The intensities of light emission from the excitation of sputtered particles under the Ari ion bombardment of a single crystal Al(1 1 1) target are measured as a function of the partial oxygen pressure, wavelength and beam energy. The photon yields for two Al I lines (309.2 and 396.2 nm) are found to be proportional to the partial pressure up to similar to 10 x 10(-6) Torr. Above that, the photon yields start to decrease, as also observed ill other measurements. From the pressure and time dependence of the Al I spectral lines, the sputtering yield, S-0, and sticking coefficient, c(s), of adsorbed oxygen gas on the Al surface are determined directly. For the three argon ion beam energies 10, 15. and 20 kV, the sputtering yields of oxygen atoms from the surface are 0.45, 0.31, and 0.20 respectively. The sticking coefficient of oxygen atoms on the Al surface is estimated as (5.1 +/- 0.8) x 10(-3). (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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