In analogy to the case of optical absorption it is shown that inclusion of nonlocal surface effects results in a very large contribution to the energy loss of fast electrons scattered by a sphere. The scattering is found to be predominantly in the forward direction and is an order of magnitude larger than that calculated classically.
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