Energetic ion bombardment of solid targets can lead to the production of atomic recoils and
defects within the solid and the ejection or sputtering of atoms from the surface with the …

Ion beam erosion can be used as a process for achieving surface smoothing at microscopic
length scales and for the preparation of ultrasmooth surfaces, as an alternative to …

Nanostructured carbon materials are potentially of great technological interest for the
development of electronic,, catalytic, and hydrogen-storage systems,. Here we describe a …

Manipulating matter at the nanometre scale is important for many electronic, chemical and
biological advances,,, but present solid-state fabrication methods do not reproducibly …

When collimated beams of low energy ions are used to bombard materials, the surface often
develops a periodic pattern or “ripple” structure. Different types of patterns are observed to …

Low-energy ion-beam sputtering, ie the removal of atoms from a surface due to the impact of
energetic ions or atoms, is an inherent part of numerous surface processing techniques …

Nanopatterning of solid surfaces by low-energy ion bombardment has received
considerable interest in recent years. This interest was partially motivated by promising …

The classical theory of ion beam sputtering predicts the instability of a flat surface to uniform
ion irradiation at any incidence angle. We relax the assumption of the classical theory that …

Recently, it was experimentally demonstrated that sputtering under normal incidence leads
to the formation of spatially ordered uniform nanoscale islands or holes. Here, we show that …

Ordered quantum dot patterns are generated on GaSb and InSb surfaces due to a surface
instability induced by Ar+-ion sputtering at normal incidence. The characteristic length of the …