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Rayleigh scattering has shown powerful abilities to study electron resonances of nanomaterials regardless of the specific shapes. In analogy to Rayleigh scattering, here we demonstrate that edge optical scattering from two-dimensional (2D)…
The review is devoted to a discussion of new (and often unexpected) aspects of the old problem of elastic light scattering by small metal particles, whose size is comparable to or smaller than the thickness of the skin layer. The main focus…
We report experiments on surface nanopatterning of Si targets which are irradiated with 2 keV Ar + ions impinging at near-glancing incidence, under concurrent co-deposition of Au impurities simultaneously extracted from a gold target by the…
We discuss some experimental facets of electron pair emission from surfaces using two different experimental approaches. In the first case the instrument consists of a pair of hemispherical analyzers which are operated with continuous…
In this work, we are concerned with the mathematical modeling of the electromagnetic (EM) scattering by arbitrarily shaped non-magnetic nanoparticles with high refractive indices. When illuminated by visible light, such particles can…
The present approach to SERS does not rely on a hihj electrical conductivity substrate or admixture to enable the SERS process. The novelty of our method is to create an artificial periodic electron distribution on a surface by illumination…
The distribution of electrons and of electrical at the free surface if strange quark matter are determined within the framework of the MIT bag model. It is shown that, with the allowance for the betta-decay of quarks near the surface due to…
MAST-SEY is an open-source Monte Carlo code capable of calculating secondary electron emission using input data generated entirely from first principle (density functional theory) calculations. It utilizes the complex dielectric function…
The total energy distributions (TEDs) of the emission currents in field emission and surface photofield emission and the overlayer-induced modifications in the surface electronic structures from the technologically important W surfaces with…
The changes of surface structure, induced by electron beam irradiation (EBI) on the surface of poly(aryl-ether-ether-ketone) (PEEK), were investigated by using a range of various experimental techniques, such as tribology, Raman, AFM, NMR,…
Low field response function calculations have been performed on a two-dimensional electron gas with well-defined electron-surface roughness scattering. The Lindhard model was employed to compute the response function. In particular,…
Ion-beam irradiation of an amorphizable material such as Si or Ge may lead to spontaneous pattern formation beyond some critical angle of the beam versus the surface. It is known from experimental results that this critical angle varies…
With an eye on plasma walls we investigate, within an effective model for the two active electrons involved in the process, secondary electron emission due to Auger de-excitation of metastable nitrogen $N_2(^3\sigma^+_u)$ molecules at…
We present an ab initio exploration of the phenomena which will become important for freestanding structures of silicon as they are realized on the nanoscale. We find that not only surface but also edge effects are important considerations…
We present a theoretical treatment for the ejection of a secondary electron from a clean metallic surface induced by the impact of a fast primary electron. Assuming a direct scattering between the incident, primary electron and the electron…
We suggest a new type of substrates for the Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering measurements with the geometry based on self-similar fractal space filling curves. As an example, we have studied theoretically the dielectric response properties…
Continuous solid electrolyte interface (SEI) formation remains the limiting factor of the lifetime of silicon nanoparticles (SiNPs) based negative electrodes. Methods that could provide clear diagnosis of the electrode degradation are of…
The dependent scattering effect (DSE), which arises from the wave nature of electromagnetic radiation, is a critical mechanism affecting the radiative properties of micro/nanoscale discrete disordered media (DDM). In the last a few decades,…
The magnetic dipole absorption cross section of a spherically shaped metal particle was calculated in terms of kinetic approach. The particle considered was placed in the field of a plane electromagnetic wave. The model of boundary…