Its unimaginably powerful field would tear electrons away from your atoms, converting you into a cloud of monatomic ions – single atoms without electrons– as EarthSky notes. And yet ...

The clue for ION had been [Monatomic or polyatomic atom], but “polyatomic atom” is a contradictory phrase. Ions are atoms with net electric charges, so it’s not uncommon to see “atom” in ...

The multi-mode gas cluster ion source (GCIS) is designed to operate in both Ar n + cluster and Ar + monatomic modes making it suitable for sputter cleaning and depth profiling organic, inorganic ...

In contrast to monatomic ions, large cluster ions do not penetrate deeply into the material, modelling showing that the energy of the impact is deposited within the first few nanometers of the surface ...

It includes the standard EX06 ion gun, optimized for monatomic ion sputtering and ion scattering spectroscopy. Additionally, it provides the option of the monatomic and gas cluster ion source, MAGCIS, ...