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- Authors are experts in the field, having discovered the phenomena and formulated the theory of crystal rainbows;
- Describes both analytical and numerical approaches to ion channeling;
- Covers the latest advances, including rainbow effects in crystals and nanotubes, crystal rainbows as catastrophes, and ion beam bending with nanotubes.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology (LNNST, volume 25)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book discusses the effects, modeling, latest results, and nanotechnology applications of rainbows that appear during channeling of charged particles in crystals and nanotubes. The authors begin with a brief review of the optical and particle rainbow effects followed by a detailed description of crystal rainbows, which appear in ion channeling in crystals, and their modeling using catastrophe theory. The effects of spatial and angular focusing of channeled ions are described, with special attention given to the applications of the former effect to subatomic microscopy. The results of a thorough study of the recent high-resolution channeling experiments performed with protons of energies between 2.0 and 0.7 MeV and a 55 nm thick silicon crystal are also provided. This study opens up the potential for accurate analysis of very thin crystals. Also presented are recent results related to rainbows occurring in proton transmission through carbon nanotubes, and a detailed quantum consideration of the transmission of positrons of an energy of 1 MeV through very short carbon nanotubes. This process is determined by the rainbow effect. The initial positron beam is represented as an ensemble of non-interacting Gaussian wave packets, and the principal and supernumerary primary rainbows appearing in the spatial and angular distributions of transmitted positrons are clearly identified. They are explained by the effects of wrinkling, concentration and coordination of the wave packets.
Authors and Affiliations
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Laboratory of Physics, Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Nebojša Nešković, Srdjan Petrović, Marko Ćosić
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rainbows in Channeling of Charged Particles in Crystals and Nanotubes
Authors: Nebojša Nešković, Srdjan Petrović, Marko Ćosić
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61524-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61523-3Published: 29 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87101-1Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61524-0Published: 27 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2195-2159
Series E-ISSN: 2195-2167
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 194
Number of Illustrations: 63 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nanoscale Science and Technology, Optical and Electronic Materials, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Nanotechnology