Excitation of Plasmons and Interband Transitions by Electrons

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Volume plasmons.
• The dielectric function and the loss function of bound electrons.
• Excitation of volume plasmons.
• The energy loss spectrum of electrons and the loss function.
• Experimental results.
• The loss width.
• The wave vector dependency of the energy of the volume plasmon.
• Core excitations. Application to microanalysis.
• Energy losses by excitation of Cerenkov radiation and guided light modes.
• Surface excitations.
• Different electron energy loss spectrometers.