Abstract:Electrons entering a crystal undergo elastic and inelastic scattering. The main elastic process is Bragg scattering by the atoms. The inelastic scattering processes include plasmon excitations, therma...Electrons entering a crystal undergo elastic and inelastic scattering. The main elastic process is Bragg scattering by the atoms. The inelastic scattering processes include plasmon excitations, thermal diffuse scattering and single-electron excitations. As a first step, we describe scattering by a single atom. In this case the inelastic processes are much simpler, being due only to excitations of atomic states. Plasmon scattering and thermal diffuse scattering are described in Chapter 16. In this chapter we describe elastic and inelastic scattering processes for atoms in the Born approximation and calculate differential and total cross sections for special cases.Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-12-13
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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