The injection of material into a target specimen in the form of an accelerated ion beam offers
a most valuable tool for altering its physical, chemical, structural, surface and interface …

The basic physical mechanisms of damage formation in semiconductors due to swift heavy
ion (SHI) irradiation are not yet fully understood. In the present paper damage evolution and …

We investigate the ripple pattern formation on Si surfaces at room temperature during
normal incidence ion beam erosion under simultaneous deposition of different metallic co …

Ion beam sputtering of ultrathin film Au coatings used as a physical catalyst for self-
organization of Si nanostructures has been achieved by tuning the incident particle energy …

We investigated the effect of silicide formation on ion-induced nanopatterning of silicon with
various ultrathin metal coatings. Silicon substrates coated with 10 nm Ni, Fe, and Cu were …

This paper presents the swift heavy ions irradiation effects in commercial Gd-doped YBCO
(YGd 0.2 Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7− x) coated conductors irradiated by 1.9 GeV 181 Ta ions with a wide …

A new crystalline ground state was discovered in the Au–Si system through first-principles
electronic structure calculations. The new structure was found using the experimentally and …

A nanodot array morphology gradually develops on SiO2 surface when a thin bi-layer of Au
and Si undergoes ion irradiation. An increasing amount of gold silicide is detected as …

We performed a global search for possible Au-Si crystal structures using a genetic algorithm
(GA) combined with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Two Au-Si structures, A u 8 …

We have investigated the ion beam mixing in the metal/semiconductor (Cu/Ge) system
under swift heavy ion irradiation. For this study the samples have been prepared by electron …