Hyperthermal atomic oxygen beam-induced etching of HOPG (0001) studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy

Engineering & Materials Science

• Scanning tunneling microscopy 100%
• X ray photoelectron spectroscopy 68%
• Etching 60%
• Graphite 55%
• Oxygen 45%
• Defects 6%
• Space shuttles 6%
• Prisms 6%
• Atoms 5%
• Chemical reactions 5%
• Characterization (materials science) 4%
• Temperature 2%
• Experiments 1%

Physics & Astronomy

• pyrolytic graphite 72%
• scanning tunneling microscopy 54%
• photoelectron spectroscopy 46%
• etching 42%
• oxygen 33%
• x rays 25%
• fluence 12%
• space shuttles 6%
• defects 5%
• prisms 5%
• flight 4%
• proportion 4%
• chemical reactions 4%
• room temperature 2%
• characterization 2%
• atoms 2%
• energy 1%

Chemical Compounds

• Scanning Tunneling Microscopy 57%
• Etching 50%
• Graphite 41%
• X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy 39%
• Dioxygen 27%
• Surface 15%
• Translational Energy 9%
• Prismatic Crystal 7%
• Reaction Yield 5%
• Ambient Reaction Temperature 3%