Abstract The Moon and Mercury are airless bodies, thus they are directly exposed to the
ambient plasma (ions and electrons), to photons mostly from the Sun from infrared range all …

The generation of spin and orbital currents is of crucial importance in the field of spin-
orbitronics. In this work, using relativistic density functional theory and the Kubo linear …

The roughness of a surface is known to have a strong influence on the sputtering process.
Commonly used 1D Monte Carlo codes for calculating sputter yields show good agreement …

A consistent, up-to-date description of the extremely manifold and varied experimental
techniques which nowadays enable work with neutral particles. Th book lays the physical …

The potential energy stored in multiply charged ions is liberated when the ions recombine
during impact on a solid surface. For certain target species this can lead to a novel form of …

Abstract Pyroxenes ((Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn) 2 Si 2 O 6) belong to the most abundant rock forming
minerals that make up the surface of rocky planets and moons. Therefore, sputtering of …

Nanostructured tungsten has been proposed as a promising option for plasma facing
materials in future fusion reactors, because compared to conventional tungsten it shows …

The sputtering of wollastonite (CaSiO 3) by solar wind-relevant ions has been investigated
experimentally and the results are compared to the binary collision approximation (BCA) …

The sputtering yields of solids under ion bombardment are highly sensitive to the roughness
of their surfaces. Understanding how sputtering is exactly affected by different surface …

He-induced nanostructured tungsten (so-called W-fuzz) was bombarded with Ar ions under
60° and the dynamic erosion behaviour was experimentally investigated. By using a highly …