Engineering Thin Films and Nanostructures with Ion Beams

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Engineering Thin Films and Nanostructures with Ion Beams

Engineering Thin Films and Nanostructures with Ion Beams

Series:

Optical Science and Engineering

Published:

April 6, 2005 by CRC Press - 592 Pages

Editor(s):

Emile Knystautas, CIVEN, Venice, Italy

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Features

Recent research emphasizing the customized creation of structures on the nano-scale

The effect of stresses generated by ion-beam methods, often ignored in the literature

200 tables and a complete, up-to-date glossary of terms and acronyms used in the book

CD-ROM with video clips from an electron microscope that details crater formation and annealing by ion beams

Summary

While ion-beam techniques have been used to create thin films in the semiconductor industry for several decades, these methods have been too costly for other surface treatment applications. However, as manufacturing devices become increasingly smaller, the use of a directed-energy ion beam is finding novel industrial applications that require the custom tailoring of new materials and devices, including magnetic storage devices, photonics, opto-electronics, and molecular transport. Engineering Thin Films and Nanostructures with Ion Beams offers a thorough narrative of the recent advances that make this technology relevant to current and future applications.

Featuring internationally recognized researchers, the book compiles their expertise in a multidimensional source that:

Highlights the mechanisms and visual evidence of the effects of single-ion impacts on metallic surfaces

Considers how ion-beam techniques can help achieve higher disk-drive densities

Introduces gas-cluster ion-beam technology and reviews its precedents

Explains how ion beams are used to aggregate metals and semiconductors into nanoclusters with nonlinear optical properties

Addresses current challenges in building equipment needed to produce nanostructures in an industrial setting

Examines the combination of ion-beam techniques, particularly with physical vapor deposition

Delineates the fabrication of nanopillars, nanoflowers, and interconnected nanochannels in three dimensions by using atomic shadowing techniques

Illustrates the production of nanopores of varying dimensions in polymer films, alloys, and superconductors using ion-beam irradiation

Shows how fingerprints can be made more reliable as forensic evidence by recoil-mixing them into the substrate using ion beams

From the basics of the ion-beam modification of materials to state-of-the-art applications, Engineering Thin Films and Nanostructures with Ion Beams is a comprehensive text that provides a complete retrospective of the technology and illustrates the wider landscape for which ion beam techniques are becoming increasingly applicable.

Introduction, É.J. Knystautas
Single Ion Induced Spike Effects on Thin Metal Films: Observation and Simulation, S.E. Donnelly, R. Birtcher, and K. Nordlund
Ion Beam Effects in Magnetic Thin Films, J.E.E. Baglin
Selected Topics in Ion Beam Surface Engineering, D.B. Fenner, J.K. Hirvonen, and J.D. Demaree
Optical Effects of Ion Implantation, P.D. Townsend and P.J.T. Nunn
Metal Alloy Nanoclusters by Ion Implantation in Silica, P. Mazzoldi, G. Mattei, C. Maurizio, E. Cattaruzza, and F. Gonella
Intrinsic Residual Stress Evolution in Thin Films During Energetic Particle Bombardment, A. Misra and M. Nastasi
Industrial Aspects of Ion Implantation Equipment and Ion Beam Generation, K. Matsuda and M. Tanjyo
Nanostructured Transition-Metal Nitride Layers, D. Gall
Nuclear Tracks and Nanostructures, R. L. Fleischer
Forensic Applications of Ion-Beam Mixing and Surface Spectroscopy of Latent Fingerprints, C.H. Koch
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