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Based on the combination of the first-principles and Monte Carlo method, the effect of vacancy defect on secondary electron characteristic of Al2O3 is studied in this work. The density functional theory (DFT) calculation results show that the band structure changes when the vacancy defects exist. The existence of Al vacancy defects results in a decrease in band gap from 5.88 to 5.28 eV, and in Fermi level below the energy of the valence band maximum as well. Besides, the elastic mean free paths and inelastic mean free paths of electrons in different crystal structures are also obtained. The comparison shows that the inelastic mean free path of electrons in Al2O3 with O vacancy defects is much larger than those of Al2O3 without defects and Al2O3 with Al vacancy defects. When the energy of electrons is smaller than 50 eV, the inelastic mean free path of electrons in Al2O3 without defects is longer than that in Al2O3 with Al vacancy defects. The elastic mean free path of electrons slightly increases when the vacancy defects exist, and the elastic mean free path of electrons in Al2O3 with Al vacancy defects is the largest. In order to investigate the secondary electron emission characteristics under different vacancy defect ratios, an optimized Monte Carlo algorithm is proposed. When the ratio between O vacancy defect and Al vacancy defect increases, the simulation results show that the maximum value of secondary electron yield decreases with the ratio of vacancy defect increasing. The existence of O vacancy defects increases the probability of inelastic scattering of electrons, so electrons are difficult to emit from the surface. As a result, comparing with Al vacancy defect, the SEY of Al2O3 decreases greatly under the same ratio of O vacancy defect.
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Keywords:
- secondary electron /
- vacancy defects /
- Monte Carlo /
- density functional theory
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图 1 Al2O3内部产生缺陷和无缺陷的晶体结构 (a) O空位缺陷; (b) Al空位缺陷; (c) 无缺陷 (灰色原子为Al3+ , 红色原子为O2–, 蓝色圆圈为缺陷原子位置)
Figure 1. Crystal structure of Al2O3 with ideal state and defects: (a) O vacancy defect; (b) Al vacancy defect; (c) ideal state (the gray atoms are Al3+, the red atoms are O2– and the blue circles are the defective atom positions).
图 2 Al2O3内部存在缺陷和无缺陷时的能带分布
Figure 2. Energy band profile in Al2O3 with and without internal defects.
图 3 Al2O3存在Al空位缺陷和O空位缺陷情况时, 基于不同方向下动量转移的ELFs (a), (b), (c) O空位缺陷的ELF, 依次为x, y, z方向; (d), (e), (f) Al空位缺陷的ELF, 依次为x, y, z方向. $\left| {\boldsymbol{q}} \right|$的取值为: 0—0.1区间内, 间隔增量为0.005; 0.1—1.5区间内, 间隔增量为0.02; 1.5—5.25区间内, 间隔增量为0.05; 5.25—6.95区间内, 间隔增量为0.1; 7.45—10.95区间内, 间隔增量为0.5. $\left| {\boldsymbol{q}} \right|$以$2\pi /a$为单位, a为晶格常数. 从$\left| {\boldsymbol{q}} \right|$=0开始, 每四个连续$\left| {\boldsymbol{q}} \right|$取一行, 偏移量是–0.01
Figure 3. ELFs based on momentum transfer in different directions when Al2O3 has Al vacancy defect and O vacancy defect: (a), (b), (c) The ELFs of O vacancy defect in x, y, and z directions; (d), (e), (f) the ELFs of Al vacancy defect in x, y, and z directions. The increments of $\left| {\boldsymbol{q}} \right|$ are 0.005 between 0 and 0.1, 0.02 between 0.1 and 1.5, 0.05 between 1.5 and 5.25, 0.1 between 5.25 and 6.95, and 0.5 between 7.45 and 10.95. $\left| {\boldsymbol{q}} \right|$ takes the unit of 2π/a, and a is the lattice parameter. Lines are taken in the order of one for every four successive $\left| {\boldsymbol{q}} \right|$ from $\left| {\boldsymbol{q}} \right|$ = 0 and offset by –0.01.
图 4 Al2O3在无缺陷、存在O空位缺陷和Al空位缺陷时, 基于不同方向动量转移的电子非弹性平均自由程 (a) x方向; (b) y方向; (c) z方向
Figure 4. Inelastic mean free paths of electrons in Al2O3 in the ideal state, Al vacancy defect and O vacancy defect with momentum transfer in different direction: (a) x-direction; (b) y-direction; (c) z-direction.
图 5 Al2O3在无缺陷、O空位缺陷和Al空位缺陷情况下的弹性平均自由程
Figure 5. Elastic mean free paths of electrons in Al2O3 under conditions of ideal state, Al vacancy defect and O vacancy defect.
图 6 蒙特卡罗模拟流程图
Figure 6. A flow chart of Monte Carlo simulation.
图 7 空位缺陷概率对Al2O3的二次电子发射系数的影响 (a) O空位缺陷; (b)Al空位缺陷
Figure 7. Effect of vacancy defect probability on the secondary electron emission coefficient of Al2O3: (a) O vacancy defect; (b) Al vacancy defect.
表 1 不同空位缺陷概率对二次电子发射系数的影响
Table 1. Effect of different vacancy defect probabilities on the coefficients of secondary electron emission.
缺陷概率/% O空位缺陷 Al空位缺陷 W/eV SEY W/eV SEY 1 440 4.08 460 4.14 4 460 4.06 460 4.06 7 440 4.02 460 4.08 10 440 3.96 420 4.06 
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[1] Seiler H 1983 J. Appl. Phys. 54 R1
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[2] Joe H E, Lee W S, Jun M B G, Park N C, Min B K 2018 Ultramicroscopy 184 37
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[4] Tao S X, Chan H W, Van Der Graaf H 2016 Materials 9 1017
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[5] 常超 2018 科学通报 63 1390
Google Scholar
Chang C 2018 Chin. Sci. Bull. 63 1390
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[6] Hu T C, Zhu S K, Zhao Y N, Sun X, Yang J, He Y, Wang X B, Bai C J, Bai H, Wei H, Cao M, Hu Z Q, Liu M, Cui W Z 2022 Chin. Phys. B 31 047901
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[7] Kirby R E, King F K 2001 Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. , Sect. A 469 1
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[8] 林舒, 闫杨娇, 李永东, 刘纯亮 2014 物理学报 63 147902
Google Scholar
Lin S, Yan Y J, Li Y D, Liu C L 2014 Acta Phys. Sin. 63 147902
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[9] 李爽, 常超, 王建国, 刘彦升, 朱梦, 郭乐田, 谢佳玲 2015 物理学报 64 137701
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Li S, Chang C, Wang J G, Liu Y S, Zhu M, Guo L T, Xie J L 2015 Acta Phys. Sin. 64 137701
Google Scholar
[10] 周前红, 董烨, 董志伟, 周海京 2015 物理学报 64 085201
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Zhou Q H, Dong Y, Dong Z W, Zhou H J 2015 Acta Phys. Sin. 64 085201
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[11] He J, Yang J, Zhao W, Long J, Lan C, Liu E, Chen X, Li J, Yang Z, Dong P, Wang T, Shi J 2020 Appl. Surf. Sci. 515 145990
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[12] González L A, Larciprete R, Cimino R 2016 AIP Adv. 6 095117
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[13] Brillson L J, Foster G M, Cox J, Ruane W T, Jarjour A B, Gao, H, Von Wenckstern H, Grundmann M, Wang B, Look D C, Hyland A, Allen M W 2018 J. Electron. Mater. 47 4980
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[14] Sun X L, Goss S H, Brillson L J, Look D C, Molnar R J 2002 J. Appl. Phys. 91 6729
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[19] 李盛涛, 聂永杰, 闵道敏, 潘绍明 2017 电工技术学报 32 1
Li S T, Nie Y J, Min D M, Pan S M 2017 Trans. Chin. Electrotech. Soc. 32 1
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Google Scholar
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