electron inelastic mean free path;
insulators;
optical constants;
organic polymers;
reflection electron energy loss spectroscopy;
SURFACE EXCITATION PROBABILITY;
MEAN FREE PATHS;
DIELECTRIC FUNCTION;
LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;
SCATTERING;
POLYSTYRENE;
DNA;
D O I:
10.1002/sia.7055
中图分类号:
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号:
070304 ;
081704 ;
摘要:
Reflection electron energy loss spectroscopy (REELS) spectra were measured for seven insulating organic compounds (DNA, Irganox 1010, Kapton, polyethylene [PE], poly(methyl methacrylate) [PMMA], polystyrene [PS] and polytetrafluoroethylene [PTFE]). Optical constants and energy band gaps were extracted from the measured REELS spectra after elimination of multiple electron scattering via a deconvolution and fitting the normalised single scattering energy loss spectra to Drude and Drude-Lindhard model dielectric functions, constrained by the Kramers-Kronig sum and f-sum rules. Satisfactory agreement is found for those optical constants for which literature data exists. For PTFE, the observed features in the optical data correspond to its electronic structure.