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Active plasma resonance spectroscopy (APRS) is a process-compatible plasma diagnostic method, which utilizes the natural ability of plasmas to resonate on or near the electron plasma frequency. The multipole resonance probe (MRP) is a particular design of APRS that has a high degree of geometric and electric symmetry. The principle of the MRP can be described on the basis of an idealized geometry that is particularly suited for theoretical investigations. In a pressure regime of a few Pa or lower, kinetic effects become important, which cannot be predicted by the Drude model. Therefore, in this paper, a dynamic model of the interaction of the idealized MRP with a plasma is established. The proposed scheme reveals the kinetic behavior of the plasma that is able to explain the influence of kinetic effects on the resonance structure. Similar to particle-in-cell, the spectral kinetic method iteratively determines the electric field at each particle position, however, without employing any numerical grids. The optimized analytical model ensures the high efficiency of the simulation. Eventually, the presented work is expected to cover the limitation of the Drude model, especially for the determination of the pure collisionless damping caused by kinetic effects. A formula to determine the electron temperature from the half-width Δ ω is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

HT ht (37) All online versions of this article were corrected on 22 August 2022. Publisher's Note: "Kinetic simulation of the ideal multipole resonance probe" [J. Appl. Phys. This article was originally published online on 8 August 2022 with an error in Eq. (37). [Extracted from the article]

We report the spectroscopy ellipsometry study for LaCoO3 epitaxy thin films grown on different SrTiO3 substrates [LCO/STO(001) and LCO/STO(111)]. Reciprocal space mapping measurements show that the as-prepared LCO/STO films are fully strained at the interface. The optical constants (the refractive index and the extinction coefficient) of LCO films from 300 K to 800 K are obtained based on the ellipsometry measurements. The optical absorption at the near-infrared region increases with heating and sharply enhances around 500 K due to the occurrence of insulator–metal transition. The observed isosbestic point reveals the evolution of the band structure along with the insulator–metal transition. The red shift of the isosbestic point from the (001) sample to the (111) sample indicates the important role interfacial strain plays in affecting the spin states. We also provide the optical conductivity and the relative effective number of interband transition electrons for different energy regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]