Latent ion tracks were finally observed in diamond

H Amekura, A Chettah, K Narumi, A Chiba… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Injecting high-energy heavy ions in the electronic stopping regime into solids can create
cylindrical damage zones called latent ion tracks. Although these tracks form in many …

Athermal annealing of pre-existing defects in crystalline silicon

MD Mihai, D Iancu, E Zarkadoula, RA Florin, Y Tong… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Systematic investigations of electronic energy loss (S e) effects on pre-existing defects in
crystalline silicon (Si) are crucial to provide reliance on the use of ionizing irradiation to …

Effect of irradiation with heavy Xe22+ ions with energies of 165–230 MeV on change in optical characteristics of ZrO2 ceramic

IA Ivanov, M Alin, MV Koloberdin, A Sapar… - Optical Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
The aim of this work is to study the effect of irradiation with heavy Xe 22+ ions with energies
of 165 MeV, 200 MeV, and 230 MeV on the change in the optical properties of ZrO 2 …

MeV cluster ion beam–material interaction

T Kaneko - Quantum Beam Science, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper treats the characteristic topics of MeV/atom cluster ion beams produced using
tandem accelerators both in the production stage and in the penetration stage from the …

Investigation of ion irradiation effects in silicon and graphite produced by 23 MeV I beam

K Tomić Luketić, M Karlušić, A Gajović, S Fazinić… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Both silicon and graphite are radiation hard materials with respect to swift heavy ions like
fission fragments and cosmic rays. Recrystallisation is considered to be the main …

Integration of electronic effects into molecular dynamics simulations of collision cascades in silicon from first-principles calculations

T Jarrin, N Richard, J Teunissen, F Da Pieve… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
The inclusion of sophisticated density-dependent electronic stopping and electron-phonon
coupling calculated with first-principles methods into molecular dynamics simulations of …

High-energy heavy ion irradiation of HOPG

D Iveković, P Dubček, A Gajović, T Čižmar… - Journal of nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the behavior of the graphite under extreme conditions is very important for its
use in applications related to the nuclear technology. In this work, we used atomic force …

Mechanism of ion track formation in silicon by much lower energy deposition than the formation threshold

H Amekura, K Narumi, A Chiba, Y Hirano… - Physica …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Mechanism of the ion track formation in crystalline silicon (c-Si) is discussed, particularly
under 1–9 MeV C 60 ion irradiation. In this energy region, the track formation was not …

Effects of swift heavy ion irradiation on the InAs and Zn-based nanoparticles ion-beam synthesized in silica

L Vlasukova, F Komarov, M Makhavikou, A van Vuuren… - Vacuum, 2023 - Elsevier
Till now, a shape elongation effect under swift heavy ions (SHI) irradiation was observed
predominantly for metal nanoparticles (NPs). We report this effect for InAs and Zn (core)/ZnO …

[HTML][HTML] An extraordinarily low-energy threshold of less than 60 keV for ion track formation in silicon

H Amekura, K Narumi, A Chiba, Y Hirano, K Yamada… - Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
The impingement of a C 60 cluster ion upon a solid can realize the temporospatially
correlated injection of sixty C atoms to the solid at the same time and place with a molecular …