Gaseous Electronics

40

BORON TRICHLORIDE

CONTENTS

40.1 Total and Partial Ionization Cross Sections

40.2 Attachment Cross Sections

40.3 Attachment Rate Coefficients

References

 

Boron trichloride (BCl₃) is an electron-attaching gas that has 56 electrons. The electronic polarizability is 1.04 × 10⁻⁴⁰ F m² and the ionization potential is 11.60 eV. The vibrational modes and energies are shown in Table 40.1 (Herzberg, 1945).

40.1 TOTAL AND PARTIAL IONIZATION CROSS SECTIONS

Jiao et al. (1997) have measured the total and partial ionization cross sections as shown in Table 40.2 and Figure 40.1. Cross sections suggested by Christophorou and Olthoff (2004) in the low-energy region are also shown.

40.2 ATTACHMENT CROSS SECTIONS

Electron attachment processes ...