TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of impact angle and projectile size on sputtering efficiency of solid benzene investigated by molecular dynamics simulations
AU - Czerwinski, Bartlomiej
AU - Rzeznik, Lukasz
AU - Paruch, Robert
AU - Garrison, Barbara J.
AU - Postawa, Zbigniew
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education Programs Nos. PB 4097/H03/2007/33 and PB 1247/B/H03/2010/39 and the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation Grant No. CHE-0910564 for their financial support of this research. The authors would also like to thank the Pennsylvania State University High Performance Computing Group for use of their computing resources and technical support.
PY - 2011/7/15
Y1 - 2011/7/15
N2 - Molecular dynamics computer simulations have been used to investigate the effect of the cluster size on the sputtering yield dependence on the impact angle. Ar366 and Ar2953 cluster projectiles with 14.75 keV of incident energy are directed at the surface of a solid benzene crystal described by a coarse-grained representation at angles between 0° and 70°. It is observed that the shape of the angular dependence of sputtering efficiency is strongly affected by the cluster size. For the Ar366 cluster, the sputtering yield only slightly increases with the impact angle, has a broad maximum around 40°, and decreases at larger angles. For the Ar 2953 cluster, the yield strongly increases with the impact angle, has a maximum around 45° followed by a steep decrease at larger angles. For both investigated cluster projectiles the primary energy is deposited so close to the surface so that the sputtering efficiency only weekly benefits from the shift of the deposited energy profile toward the surface which occurs at larger impact angles. In this study, molecular dynamics computer simulations are used to probe the effect of the impact angle on the efficiency of ejection molecules emitted from solid benzene by 14.75 keV Ar366 and Ar2953 clusters.
AB - Molecular dynamics computer simulations have been used to investigate the effect of the cluster size on the sputtering yield dependence on the impact angle. Ar366 and Ar2953 cluster projectiles with 14.75 keV of incident energy are directed at the surface of a solid benzene crystal described by a coarse-grained representation at angles between 0° and 70°. It is observed that the shape of the angular dependence of sputtering efficiency is strongly affected by the cluster size. For the Ar366 cluster, the sputtering yield only slightly increases with the impact angle, has a broad maximum around 40°, and decreases at larger angles. For the Ar 2953 cluster, the yield strongly increases with the impact angle, has a maximum around 45° followed by a steep decrease at larger angles. For both investigated cluster projectiles the primary energy is deposited so close to the surface so that the sputtering efficiency only weekly benefits from the shift of the deposited energy profile toward the surface which occurs at larger impact angles. In this study, molecular dynamics computer simulations are used to probe the effect of the impact angle on the efficiency of ejection molecules emitted from solid benzene by 14.75 keV Ar366 and Ar2953 clusters.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nimb.2010.12.026
DO - 10.1016/j.nimb.2010.12.026
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79959248992
SN - 0168-583X
VL - 269
SP - 1578
EP - 1581
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
IS - 14
ER -