Surface nanopatterning by ion beam irradiation: compositional effects

L Vázquez, A Redondo-Cubero, K Lorenz… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Surface nanopatterning induced by ion beam irradiation (IBI) has emerged as an effective
nanostructuring technique since it induces patterns on large areas of a wide variety of …

Fractal characterization of the silicon surfaces produced by ion beam irradiation of varying fluences

RP Yadav, T Kumar, AK Mittal, S Dwivedi… - Applied Surface …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Si (1 0 0) is bombarded with 200 keV Ar+ ion beam at oblique incidence with
fluences ranging from 3× 10 17 ions/cm 2 to 3× 10 18 ions/cm 2. The surface morphology of …

Insight mechanisms of surface structuring and wettability of ion-treated Ag thin films

UB Singh, RP Yadav, RK Pandey… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Insight mechanisms involved in the evolution of surface morphology and wettability of 100
MeV Ag-ion-treated Ag thin films have been studied using thermal spike and fractal analysis …

Electron binding energy XPS control of n-GaAs with the atomically clean surface etched by Ar+ ions

VM Mikoushkin, EA Makarevskaya, DA Novikov… - Vacuum, 2022 - Elsevier
Cleaning the n-GaAs surface with low-energy Ar+ ions, required in X-ray photoelectron
spectroscopy (XPS), has been recently shown to drastically change the core-level binding …

Effect of ion irradiation on GaAs core-level electron binding energies and band structure

VM Mikoushkin, EA Makarevskaya… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electronic structure and chemical composition of GaAs-based semiconductors are
considered to be well characterized by photoelectron spectroscopy and other surface …

Tuning of ripple patterns and wetting dynamics of Si (100) surface using ion beam irradiation

T Kumar, UB Singh, M Kumar, S Ojha, D Kanjilal - Current Applied Physics, 2014 - Elsevier
Ripple patterns on Si (100) surface have been fabricated using 200 keV Ar+ oblique ion
beam irradiation. Dynamical evolution of patterns is studied for the fluences ranging from 3× …

Ion beam-generated surface ripples: new insight in the underlying mechanism

T Kumar, A Kumar, DC Agarwal, NP Lalla… - Nanoscale research …, 2013 - Springer
A new hydrodynamic mechanism is proposed for the ion beam-induced surface patterning
on solid surfaces. Unlike the standard mechanisms based on the ion beam impact …

Surface erosion of BaF2 thin films under SHI irradiation: Angular distribution and role of different substrates

RK Pandey, S Pathak, M Kumar, UB Singh… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the present report, the surface erosion of the thin films of barium fluoride (BaF 2)
deposited on different substrates (Glass, Silicon, and Aluminum) using the electron beam …

Role of surface composition in morphological evolution of GaAs nano-dots with low-energy ion irradiation

T Kumar, M Kumar, G Gupta, RK Pandey… - Nanoscale research …, 2012 - Springer
The surface chemistry of GaAs (100) with 50-keV Ar+ ion beam irradiation at off-normal
incidence has been investigated in order to elucidate the surface nano-structuring …

A study on the formation of Ag nanoparticles on the surface and catcher by ion beam irradiation of Ag thin films

UB Singh, DC Agarwal, SA Khan… - Journal of Physics D …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Irradiation of Ag thin films with 100 MeV Ag ions leads to the formation of Ag nanoparticles
on the surface as well as on the catcher, due to electronic energy loss mediated sputtering of …