• 文献标题:   Energy loss and straggling of 1-50 keV H, He, C, N, and O ions passing through few layer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ALLEGRINI F, BEDWORTH P, EBERT RW, FUSELIER SA, NICOLAOU G, SINTON S
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, carbon foil, energy los, energy straggling, space plasma instrument
  • 出版物名称:   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION BBEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS ATOMS
  • ISSN:   0168-583X EI 1872-9584
  • 通讯作者地址:   Southwest Res Inst
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.nimb.2015.06.028
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Graphene could be an alternative to amorphous carbon foils, in particular in space plasma instrumentation. The interaction of ions or neutral atoms with these foils results in different effects: electron emission, charge exchange, angular scattering, and energy straggling. We showed in previous studies that (1) the charge exchange properties are similar for graphene and regular carbon foils, and (2) the scattering at low energies (few keys) is less for graphene than for one of our thinnest practical carbon foils. In this study, we report measurements of the energy loss and straggling of similar to 1-50 keV H, He, C, N, and O ions in graphene. We compare graphene and a carbon foil for hydrogen. We provide simple power law fits to the average energy loss, energy straggling, and skewness of the energy distributions. We find the energy loss for ions transiting through graphene to be reduced compared to thin carbon foils but the energy straggling to be larger, which we attribute to the non-uniformity of the graphene foils used in this study. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.