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Published on: April 16, 2017
Evidence for cluster shape effects on the kinetic energy spectrum in thermionic emission
F Calvo1, F Lépine, B Baguenard
1LASIM, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 Blvd. du 11 Novembre 1918, Villeurbanne Cedex, France. fcalvo@lasim.univ-lyon1.fr
Abstract:
Experimental kinetic energy release distributions obtained for the thermionic emission from C(n) (-) clusters, 10< or =n< or =20, exhibit significant non-Boltzmann variations. Using phase space theory, these different features are analyzed and interpreted as the consequence of contrasting shapes in the daughter clusters; linear and nonlinear isomers have clearly distinct signatures. These results provide a novel indirect structural probe for atomic clusters associated with their thermionic emission spectra.
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