Developing new routine for processing two-dimensional coincidence doppler energy spectra and evaluation of electron subsystem properties in metals

Abstract

A digital coincidence Doppler broadening (CDB) spectrometer consisting of two HPGe detectors is assembled; the energy resolution of each detector is 1.1 keV at energies near the annihilation line. Two desktop applications for CDB spectra processing are developed. TLIST Processor converts two-dimensional CDB spectra into one-dimensional spectra. Another tool SW Calculator deconvolutes the experimental CDB spectra into contributions from positron annihilation with valence, core and conduction band electrons. The program estimates the energies of the corresponding electrons and evaluates S and W parameters of the CDB spectra.