Ion beams provided by small accelerators for material synthesis and characterization

0480644 - ÚJF 2018 RIV US eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Macková, Anna - Havránek, Vladimír
Ion beams provided by small accelerators for material synthesis and characterization.
AIP Conference Proceedings. Vol. 1852. Maryland: American Institute of Physics, 2017, č. článku 060003. ISBN 978-0-7354-1526-3.
[Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2016. Sinaia (RO), 26.06.2016-09.07.2016]
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LM2015056; GA ČR GA15-01602S
Institutional support: RVO:61389005
Keywords : Ion beams * Electrostatic accelerators * Electronics * Nanostructures * Optics and optical physics
OECD category: Nuclear physics

The compact, multipurpose electrostatic tandem accelerators are extensively used for production of ion beams with energies in the range from 400 keV to 24 MeV of almost all elements of the periodic system for the trace element analysis by means of nuclear analytical methods. The ion beams produced by small accelerators have a broad application, mainly for material characterization (Rutherford Back-Scattering spectrometry, Particle Induced X ray Emission analysis, Nuclear Reaction Analysis and Ion-Microprobe with 1 um lateral resolution among others) and for high-energy implantation. Material research belongs to traditionally progressive fields of technology. Due to the continuous miniaturization, the underlying structures are far beyond the analytical limits of the most conventional methods. Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) techniques provide this possibility as they use probes of similar or much smaller dimensions (particles, radiation). Ion beams can be used for the synthesis of new progressive functional nanomaterials for optics, electronics and other applications. Ion beams are extensively used in studies of the fundamental energetic ion interaction with matter as well as in the novel nanostructure synthesis using ion beam irradiation in various amorphous and crystalline materials in order to get structures with extraordinary functional properties. IBA methods serve for investigation of materials coming from material research, industry, micro- and nano-technology, electronics, optics and laser technology, chemical, biological and environmental investigation in general. Main research directions in laboratories employing small accelerators are also the preparation and characterization of micro- and nano-structured materials which are of interest for basic and oriented research in material science, and various studies of biological, geological, environmental and cultural heritage artefacts are provided too.
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