Performance and application of heavy ion nuclear microbeam facility at the Nuclear Physics Institute in Rez, Czech Republic

0502236 - ÚJF 2020 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Romanenko, Oleksandr V. - Havránek, Vladimír - Macková, Anna - Davídková, Marie - Cutroneo, Mariapompea - Ponomarev, A. G. - Nagy, G. - Stammers, James H. - Rajta, I.
Performance and application of heavy ion nuclear microbeam facility at the Nuclear Physics Institute in Rez, Czech Republic.
Review of Scientific Instruments. Roč. 90, č. 1 (2019), č. článku 013701. ISSN 0034-6748. E-ISSN 1089-7623
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LM2015056; GA MŠMT EF16_013/0001812; GA ČR(CZ) GBP108/12/G108
Institutional support: RVO:61389005
Keywords : Tandetron 4130 MC * analytical methods * ion irradiation
OECD category: Nuclear physics
Impact factor: 1.480, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5070121

The Tandetron Laboratory of the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences is equipped with five beam lines associated with a 3 MV tandem electrostatic accelerator model 4130 MC from High Voltage Engineering Europa B.V. This accelerator is coupled with two duoplasmatron sources and a single sputter ion source and provides ions from hydrogen to gold. One of these lines is a nuclear microbeam facility, utilizing ion beams of micro-and sub-micro sizes for materials research by use of particle induced x-ray emission spectroscopy, particle induced gamma emission, Rutherford back-scattering spectroscopy, and scanning transmission ion microscopy methods as well as for ion beam writing. The major advantage of the presented microprobe is a possibility of 3D structure creation not only in polymer materials using light ions but also in other materials such as glass, ceramics, etc. by use of heavy ions. The focusing system allows focusing of charged particles with a maximum rigidity of 11 MeV amu/q(2). The usual resolution in high and low current modes is 2 x 3 mu m(2) for a 100 pA and 0.3 x 0.5 mu m(2) for the 2000 ions/s of 2 MeV protons, respectively. A detailed facility description is given in the paper. The applications of focused beams of heavy ions as well as examples of light ions utilizing are also presented in the article.
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