Creation of surface nanostructures by irradiation with slow, highly charged ions

A. S. El-Said; W. Meissl; M. C. Simon; J. R.Crespo López-Urrutia; I. C. Gebeshuber; J. Laimer; H. P. Winter; J. Ullrich; F. Aumayr

doi:10.1080/10420150701470803

Creation of surface nanostructures by irradiation with slow, highly charged ions

A. S. El-Said
, W. Meissl
, M. C. Simon
, J. R.Crespo López-Urrutia
, I. C. Gebeshuber
, J. Laimer
, H. P. Winter
, J. Ullrich
, F. Aumayr^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

It has recently been demonstrated that slow (v 1a.u.) highly charged ions (HCIs) are able to generate nano-sized hillocks on cleaved CaF2(111) surfaces. The aim of the present study was to explore whether surface nanostructures can also be formed on other target materials by the impact of slow HCIs. To this purpose, we have irradiated LiF(001), diamond-like carbon (DLC) and Au(111) with slow Xe HCIs (up to charge state 44+) from the Heidelberg electron beam ion trap. After irradiation, the crystals were investigated by scanning force microscopy. Nanometric hillocks protruding from the surface were found in the topographic images for the case of Xeq+ on LiF(001) for charge states q 28, but not for DLC and Au(111).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	467-472
Number of pages	6
Journal	Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids
Volume	162
Issue number	7-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10420150701470803
State	Published - Jul 2007
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
This work has been supported by the Austrian Science Foundation FWF (project nos M894-N02 and P17449). The experiments were performed at the distributed LEIF-Infrastructure at MPI Heidelberg, Germany, supported by Transnational Access granted by the European Project RII3#026015.

Keywords

Diamond like carbon
HCIs
Highly charged ions
Inelastic thermal spike model
Ion-surface interaction
LiF
Surface nanostructures

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Radiation
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics

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Creation of surface nanostructures by irradiation with slow, highly charged ions

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