Interaction of Charged Particles with Solids and Surfaces

Mainstream Lecture Series.- Theory of Charged-Particle Stopping.- Dynamical Interaction of Charges with Condensed Matter.- Density Functional Theory of Stopping Power.- Statistics of Charged-Particle Penetration.- Accelerators and Stopping Power Experiments.- Experimental Aspects of Channeling.- Charged Particle-Surface Interactions and Spectroscopies.- Electron Spectra in Solids.- Low Energy Ion Penetration and Collision Cascades in Solids.- Interaction of Low-Energy Ions, Atoms and Molecules with Surfaces.- Applications of Ion Beams to Materials Science.- Desorption Induced by Electronic Transitions: Basic Principles and Mechanisms.- Invited Lectures.- Impact Parameter Dependent Energy Loss for Heavy Ions: an Overview.- Questions Concerning the Stopping Power of Heavy Ions in Solids.- Scattering of Fast Ions and Energy Loss on Surfaces.- Neutralization of Fast Protons in Grazing Collisions with an A1(111) Surface.- On the Stopping Power of an Electron Gas for Slow Proton and Antiproton.- Electron Capture in Atomic Collisions.- Channeling and Channeling Radiation Theory.- Wakes, Dynamic Screening.- Current Topics in Kinetic Electron Emission from Solids.- Convoy Electrons.- Surface Electron Spectroscopy; Importance of Particle Transport.- Stopping Power of Hot Plasmas and Cold Solids: Dielectric and Transport Cross Section Formulations.- Ion-Induced Emission From Magnetic Materials Near Phase Transition Temperature.- Contributed Papers: Ion Stopping.- Accurate Quantum Mechanical Calculation of Stopping Powers for Intermediate Energy Light Ions Penetrating Atomic H and He Targets.- Charge Exchange and Energy Loss of Particles Interacting with Surfaces.- Effective Charge of Helium Ions in Solids.- Wake Potential in the Vicinities of a Surface.- Stopping Power of Large Molecular Clusters in Cold and Heated Solids.- A Stopping Power Formula for Helium Ions.- Survey of Heavy-Ions Research at CIRIL/GANIL.- Influence of Thickness Fluctuations on the Energy-Loss Spectra of Protons Transmitted through Thin Films.- Contributed Papers: Stopping of Electrons.- Inelastic Interactions of Electrons with Solids: LPA and Penn’s Statistical Model.- Energy Distribution of Electrons Excited by Slow Particles in Solids.- Ion-Induced Auger Electron Emission from Single Crystals: Experiment and Simulation.- Electron Spectra from Ion Bombardment of Cleaned Surfaces Covered with Frozen Gases at Low Sample Temperatures.- Emission of Spin-Polarized Electrons to Study Surface Magnetism and Particle-Surface Interaction.- Positron Thermalisation in Aluminum.- Contributed Papers: Low Energies.- Interaction of a Charged Particle with a Semi Infinite Non Polar Dielectric Liquid.- On the Experimental Verification of Various Mechanisms of Secondary Atomic and Molecular Ion Production Upon Ion Bombardment of Pure Metals.- Cascade Evolution and Sputtering in Condensed Rare Gases.- Contributed Papers: Applications.- Monte Carlo Simulations of Deposition Processes.- Growth of Thin Films by Ion Beam Sputtering: Study of Rare Gas Incorporation.- Experimental Evidence of the Bond Breaking Mechanism in Oxygen Secondary Ion Emission Enhancement.- Ion Beam Induced Ni-Ag Mixing.- SIMS Surface Analysis of PET: Degradation Development.- Closing Remarks.- Closing Remarks: Perspectives in Particle-Solid Interactions.- Participants.- Author Index.