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Atoms, Volume 12, Issue 2

February 2024 - 6 articles

Cover Story: This comprehensive study, marrying theory and experiment, focuses on single-electron capture via metastable Sn2+∗ ions from molecular hydrogen, a process of significant relevance for ion mitigation in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photolithography machines. The semi-classical calculations reveal that at collisional energies pertinent to EUV applications, the cross-section for metastable Sn2+∗ ions dominates over the one for ground-state Sn2+ ions. Experimental validation for Sn2+∗, extracted from a crossed-beam experiment of Sn3+ with hydrogen, demonstrates good agreement with calculations in the 2 to 10 keV range. The investigation discards a significant spin–orbit interaction role and suggests that molecular hydrogen vibrations become pivotal at energies below a few keV. View this paper
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Articles (6)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,607 Views
13 Pages

FeC4H22+ Encompassing Planar Tetracoordinate Iron: Structure and Bonding Patterns

  • Shilpa Shajan,
  • Kandasamy Thirunavukkarsu,
  • Vijayanand Chandrasekaran,
  • Venkatesan S. Thimmakondu and
  • Krishnan Thirumoorthy

18 February 2024

The singlet, triplet, and quintet electronic states of the FeC4H22+ system are theoretically explored using quantum chemical methods, and 39 isomers are identified in the singlet electronic state and 4 isomers in both triplet and quintet electronic s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,310 Views
11 Pages

Optical Extreme Learning Machines with Atomic Vapors

  • Nuno A. Silva,
  • Vicente Rocha and
  • Tiago D. Ferreira

6 February 2024

Extreme learning machines explore nonlinear random projections to perform computing tasks on high-dimensional output spaces. Since training only occurs at the output layer, the approach has the potential to speed up the training process and the capac...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,653 Views
11 Pages

Electron Capture from Molecular Hydrogen by Metastable Sn2+* Ions

  • Klaas Bijlsma,
  • Lamberto Oltra,
  • Emiel de Wit,
  • Luc Assink,
  • Ismanuel Rabadán,
  • Luis Méndez and
  • Ronnie Hoekstra

1 February 2024

Over a wide and partly overlapping energy range, the single-electron capture cross-sections for collisions of metastable Sn2+(5s5p Po3) (Sn2+∗) ions with H2 molecules were measured (0.1–10 keV) and calculated (0.3–1000 keV). T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,731 Views
18 Pages

Nanoparticle Interferometer by Throw and Catch

  • Jakub Wardak,
  • Tiberius Georgescu,
  • Giulio Gasbarri,
  • Alessio Belenchia and
  • Hendrik Ulbricht

25 January 2024

Matter wave interferometry with increasingly larger masses could pave the way to understanding the nature of wavefunction collapse, the quantum to classical transition, or even how an object in a spatial superposition interacts with its gravitational...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,279 Views
15 Pages

New Data on Autoionizing States of Ne Induced by Low-Energy Electrons from 45 to 64 eV

  • Jozo J. Jureta,
  • Bratislav P. Marinković and
  • Lorenzo Avaldi

23 January 2024

The lowest single and doubly excited autoionizing states of neon have been studied using a non-monochromatic electron beam and a high-resolution electrostatic analyzer at incident electron energies from 43.37 to 202 (±0.4) eV at three ejection...

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