Inelastic Electron Scattering and Total Reflectivity in RHEED

Abstract

The detailed studies of the electron energy distribution of the specular reflected beam and the total reflectivity for a platinum single crystal (111) surface under a variety of diffraction conditions were carried out on a JEM-2000FX transmission electron microscope equipped with a Gatan 666 paralleldetection electron energy loss spectrometer.Five different diffraction conditions are characterized as D1-D5. With D1, the specular reflected spot falls in an intersection of a parallel Kikuchi line with a parabola; with D2, the specular reflected spot coincides with an intersection of the Kikuchi lines running parallel to and inclined to the crystal surface; with D3, that is pure specular Bragg reflection (the specular reflected spot crosses only the parallel Kikuchi line); with D4, the specular reflected spot intersects only with a parabola; and with D5, the specular reflected spot falls only on the oblique K-lines. A series of specular reflected beam energy loss spectra collected from the first four different diffraction conditions is shown in figure 1, where the spectra 1-4 correspond to conditions D1-D4, respectively.