Experimental settings

An example of a settings file can be found in the Examples folder of the repository.

Beam:

Experiment beam settings:

• beam_energy – energy of the electron beam, keV

• beam_current – current of the electron beam, A

Modulation of the beam profile:

• gauss_dev – standard deviation of a Gaussian beam shape function in nm

• n – order of the Gaussian function (see super or higher order gaussian distribution)

Electron trajectory settings:

• minimum_energy – energy at which electron trajectory following concludes, keV

Other:

• precursor_flux – precursor flux at the surface, 1/(nm^2*s)

• substrate_element – material of the substrate, i.e. ‘Au’

• deposition_scaling – multiplier for deposited volume for artificial speed up of the simulation

• emission_fraction – fraction of the total energy lost by primary electrons that is converted to secondary electron emission