Abstract
Field evaporation (FEV) is central to atom-probe tomography; this chapter describes its theory. Continuing discussion and misunderstandings about the mechanism and theory of FEV make it useful to provide both an account of current thinking about basic FEV theory and a definitive account of past debates and of the evidence that supports current thinking. This chapter places some emphasis on this. It also provides a summary overview of current thinking about the interaction of laser pulses with field emitters and about the theory of laser pulsed ion evaporation from metals, wide-band-gap semiconductors, and normal-band-gap semiconductors.
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