Abstract In recent years Ion Beam Sputtering (IBS) has revealed itself as a powerful
technique to induce surface nanopatterns with a large number of potential applications …

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 …

The accumulation of defects and in particular He bubbles, can have significant implications
for the performance of materials exposed to the plasma in magnetic-confinement nuclear …

We review recent progress toward the development of predictive models of ion-induced
pattern formation on room-temperature silicon, with a particular emphasis on efforts to …

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 …

Fabrication of nanocone arrays on Si surfaces was demonstrated using grazing incidence
irradiation with 1 keV Ar+ ions concurrently sputtering the surface and depositing metal …

Nanopattern formation on Co x Si 1− x (0< x< 1) surfaces has been studied under a range of
low energy Ar+ ion bombardment at oblique incidence and also at varying ion fluences. Our …

Combined scanning tunneling microscopy, Auger electron spectroscopy, and surface
magneto-optic Kerr effect studies were employed to study the microscopic structures and …

We report the synthesis of Si nanodots on quartz surface using ion irradiation. When a bi-
layer of ultrathin Au and Si on quartz surface is irradiated by 500 keV Xe-ion beam, the bi …

Nanostructure evolution on binary material surfaces using low energy ion beams is being
intensively studied recently owing to the varied forms of structures obtained as well as its …