This topical review focuses on recent advances in the understanding of the formation of
surface nanostructures, an intriguing phenomenon in ion–surface interaction due to the …

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 present article reviews recent advances in the studies of the interaction of slow (v<
vBohr), very highly charged ions (such as Xe52+ and Au69+) with surfaces of metals …

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 …

Thehollow atom'(HA) is the latest and probably most exotic creation of atomic collision
physics. HA are short-lived multiply-excited neutral atoms which carry a large part of their Z …

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 …

A quartz-crystal microbalance technique for measuring total sputter yields in ion–surface
collisions is described. The electronic circuit to drive the quartz crystal ensures low noise …

The property of a variable charge state makes ions unique to other types of radiation a
material surface can be exposed to. As a consequence of charge exchange between ions …

The individual impacts of slow (300 eV/amu) highly charged Xe ions induce nanometer
sized pitlike structures on the KBr (001) surface. The volume of these structures shows a …

One of the necessary experimental quantities required for the test of unitarity of the
fundamental Cabbibo–Kobayashi–Maskawa (CKM) quark mixing matrix can be gained from …