DENSITY RESPONSE FUNCTION AND THE DYNAMIC STRUCTURE FACTOR OF THIN METAL-FILMS - NONLOCAL EFFECTS

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EGUILUZ, A
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[1] Department of Physics, University of Toronto
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1979年 / 19卷 / 04期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.19.1689
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T [工业技术];
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We use the hydrodynamic model of the bounded electron gas to evaluate the density response function of a thin film, including the effects of electron-gas dispersion (nonlocal effects). We obtain the contribution from the complete spectrum of plasma modes to the inelastic differential scattering cross section for keV electrons. Our results are for a sharp electron-density profile at the slab surfaces. Because of nonlocal effects, the spectrum is composed of a series of distinct bulk plasmons, in addition to the two surface plasmons of a thin film. We present a detailed analysis of the dynamic structure factor of a thin film in the small-wave-vector limit. We show that for sufficiently thin films, the limits 0 (which defines the local limit) and qL0 (where q is the wave vector of the plasmon and L is half the film thickness) are not interchangable in our expression for the differential cross section. Thus the local-approximation result of Ritchie for the transmission probability of a fast electron through a thin film is recovered in the 0 limit only for qL>1. We also show the close relationship between the hydrodynamic density response function and the density response function obtained in the semiclassical random-phase approximation with classical specular scattering at the boundaries. © 1979 The American Physical Society.
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页码:1689 / 1705
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