This book introduces materials scientists and designers, physicists and chemists to the properties of materials that can be modified by ion irradiation or implantation. These techniques can help design new materials or to test modified properties; novel applications already show that ion-beam techniques are complementary to others, yielding previously unattainable properties. Also, ion-beam interactions modify materials at the nanoscale, avoiding the often detrimental results of lithographic or chemical techniques. Here, the effects are related to better-known quasi-equilibrium thermodynamics, and the consequences to materials are discussed with concepts that are familiar to materials science. Examples addressed concern semiconductor physics, crystal and nanocluster growth, optics, magnetism, and applications to geology and biology.
Author(s): R. S. Averback, P. Bellon (auth.), Harry Bernas (eds.)
Series: Topics in Applied Physics 116
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 376
Tags: Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics;Condensed Matter Physics;Engineering, general;Optical and Electronic Materials
Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Fundamental Concepts of Ion-Beam Processing....Pages 1-28
Precipitate and Microstructural Stability in Alloys Subjected to Sustained Irradiation....Pages 29-52
Spontaneous Patterning of Surfaces by Low-Energy Ion Beams....Pages 53-71
Ion-Beam-Induced Amorphization and Epitaxial Crystallization of Silicon....Pages 73-111
Voids and Nanocavities in Silicon....Pages 113-146
Damage Formation and Evolution in Ion-Implanted Crystalline Si....Pages 147-212
Point Defect Kinetics and Extended-Defect Formation during Millisecond Processing of Ion-Implanted Silicon....Pages 213-226
Magnetic Properties and Ion Beams: Why and How....Pages 227-254
Structure and Properties of Nanoparticles Formed by Ion Implantation....Pages 255-285
Metal Nanoclusters for Optical Properties....Pages 287-316
Ion Beams in the Geological Sciences....Pages 317-343
Ion-Beam Modification of Polymer Surfaces for Biological Applications....Pages 345-369
Back Matter....Pages 371-376
