Fig. 1
Sketch of the simulation setup. The Au spherical NP consists of 463,878 atoms and has a diameter of 24.8 nm. The 200-keV Xe projectile hits the surface at an angle of θ to the local surface normal on a local (111) facet. Sputtered atoms reach a damping zone as soon as they are a distance of 18 nm away from the original cluster surface