The effect of heat in a target bombarded by an electron beam with certain energy was studied. A physical model was proposed according to the pattern of electron scattering, separately for a bulk specimen in electron probe microanalysis and a thin‐film specimen in transmission electron microscopy. Then formulas of rising temperature were deduced for these two events. The results of a melting experiment of Bi‐coating on glass and crystallizing of amorphous Fe78Si12B10 film under electron beam bombardment confirmed the proposed model.
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Liu et al. (1994) studied this question.