2012 Volume 10 Pages 331-334
Single plasmon losses associated with Al 2s photoemission have been theoretically studied on the basis of the quantum Landau formula, which describes overall features of x-ray photoelectron spectra. So far only photoelectron propagations from the emitters to the surface have been considered, and elastic scatterings have been completely neglected in studies of plasmon satellite peaks. This work takes all possible paths into account and includes elastic scatterings up to single scattering. The former causes rapid decay of the extrinsic loss intensity as a function of the emitter depth, and the latter emphasizes the photoemission from deep atomic sites. [DOI: 10.1380/ejssnt.2012.331]
