Deep penetration of polonium implanted in cadmium sulfide

The distribution of 25 keV 210Po implanted into CdS platelets was determined by means of energy analysis of the α-particles emitted by the 210Po. Two samples were implanted along an axial channeling direction, and one along a planar channeling direction. The resulting distributions did not conform to any of the existing range theories or, in the case of axial channeling, to existing diffusion theories. A new diffusion model was formulated and fitted to the experimental data. Good agreement was obtained between this model and experiment for both the axial and the planar channeling conditions. The stopping power of CdS for He ions was measured as a preliminary step to the Po distribution measurement. A new technique was used which consisted in measuring the energy spectrum of either He ions backscattered from Bi implanted in CdS or of α-particles emitted by 210Po implanted in CdS. A thin layer was then etched off the surface of the sample and the energy spectrum was measured again. The stopping power was calculated from these two spectra and the known thickness of the removed layer. These measurements and calculations were made for energies ranging from 0.963 to 5.3 MeV with accuracies between 12 percent and 16 percent