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Published July 2, 1990 | public
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Simulation of cluster impacts on metallic surfaces

Abstract

Energy, number-density, and confinement-time properties of 1-keV/atom Al32 and Al63 cluster impacts on Al and Au targets have been investigated by molecular-dynamics simulation. Inertial confinement of the incoming clusters leads to number-density increases of ∼2 for very short time periods (<20 fs) in the primary impact zone. Simultaneous and near-simultaneous multiple collisions occasionally increase the potential energy of a particle to more than twice that allowed in isolated two-body collisions. Up to 12% of the kinetic energy of the incoming cluster is transferred to atoms which eject early in the collision cascade.

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©1990 The American Physical Society. Received 17 January 1990. T. A. T. acknowledges partial support from the NSF (DMR 86-15641).

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