The injection of material into a target specimen in the form of an accelerated ion beam offers
a most valuable tool for altering its physical, chemical, structural, surface and interface …

Swift heavy ions (SHI) available with 15 million Volt Pelletron accelerator at Inter University
Accelerator Centre (IUAC) Delhi, formerly known as Nuclear Science Centre,(NSC), provide …

Silicon (Si) nanoparticles (NPs) and self-organized high spatial frequency laser (HSFL)
induced periodic surface structures were fabricated by means of femtosecond ablation of …

The role of energetic ions of energies from a few keV to hundreds of MeV in nanostructuring
is highlighted with the examples of nanostructures obtained by ion irradiation experiments at …

This work presents the influence of dominated electronic energy loss over nuclear energy
loss induced by swift heavy ion (SHI) irradiation on the physico-chemical, optical and other …

Silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) have a promising application in photonic devices. The
disproportionation reaction of silicon suboxide is a synthesis pathway for the production of …

Ag: ZrO 2 nanocomposite films have been synthesized by a sol-gel dip coating process at
room temperature, followed by irradiation using swift heavy ions. The effect of electronic …

Amorphous thin films of TiO2 are irradiated by swift heavy ion (SHI) beam. Surface
topography is studied by atomic force microscopy (AFM). Formation of nanosized oblate …

Ge oxide films were irradiated with 150MeV Ag ions at fluences varying between 1012 and
1014ions/cm2. The irradiation-induced changes were monitored by FT-IR spectroscopy …

Lattice deformation is observed in nanocrystalline silicon synthesized by ion beam induced
phase separation of SiOx films. The separation of silicon and silicon dioxide phases is …