ELECTRON INTERACTION WITH METALLIC CLUSTERS

Year 2004, Issue: 006, 131 - 134, 15.10.2004

Ş. Şentürk

Abstract

we re-analysized the inelastic cross sections of low energy electrons colliding with

metallic clusters. The analysis indicates that polarizability may take two forms in the

low electron energy region. The low-energy region follows the static polarizability

expression of Langevin. At higher energies, however, dynamical form comes into

play. The full explanation of the obtained inelastic cross section seems to require

both form of polarizability to be taken into account.

Keywords

Metallic cluster, Polarizability

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