Nanopatterning surfaces by grazing incidence swift heavy ion irradiation

M Karlušić, M Mičetić, M Kresić, M Jakšić, B Šantić… - Applied surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanopatterned surfaces play a key role for many applications exploiting unique features
such as an enhanced surface area, long-and short-ranged morphology modulations or a …

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 …

Localized thermal spike driven morphology and electronic structure transformation in swift heavy ion irradiated TiO 2 nanorods

S Dey, A Chakravorty, SB Mishra, N Khatun… - Nanoscale …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Irradiation of materials by high energy (∼ MeV) ions causes intense electronic excitations
through inelastic transfer of energy that significantly modifies physicochemical properties …

Fine structure of swift heavy ion track in rutile TiO2

P Zhai, S Nan, L Xu, W Li, Z Li, P Hu, J Zeng… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We report on the first observation of fine structure of latent tracks in rutile TiO 2, which
changes from cylinder to dumbbell-shape and then to sandglass-shape as a function of the …

Surface nanostructures on Nb-doped SrTiO3 irradiated with swift heavy ions at grazing incidence

N Ishikawa, Y Fujimura, K Kondo, GL Szabo… - …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
A single crystal of SrTiO 3 doped with 0.5 wt% niobium (Nb-STO) was irradiated with 200
MeV Au 32+ ions at grazing incidence to characterize the irradiation-induced hillock chains …

Swift heavy ion track formation in SrTiO3 and TiO2 under random, channeling and near-channeling conditions

M Karlušić, M Jakšić, H Lebius… - Journal of Physics D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Conditions for ion track formation in single crystal SrTiO 3 and TiO 2 (rutile) after irradiations
using swift heavy ion beams with specific energies below 1 MeV/amu were investigated in …

Mechanisms of surface nanostructuring of Al2O3 and MgO by grazing incidence irradiation with swift heavy ions

M Karlušić, RA Rymzhanov, JH O'Connell… - Surfaces and …, 2021 - Elsevier
We experimentally discovered that Al 2 O 3 and MgO exhibit well-pronounced nanometric
modifications on the surfaces when irradiated under grazing incidence with 23 MeV I beam …

Dislocation loop formation by swift heavy ion irradiation of metals

GS Khara, ST Murphy, DM Duffy - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A coupled two-temperature, molecular dynamics methodology is used to simulate the
structural evolution of bcc metals (Fe and W) and fcc metals (Cu and Ni) following irradiation …

On the threshold for ion track formation in CaF2

M Karlušić, C Ghica, RF Negrea, Z Siketić… - New journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
There is an ongoing debate regarding the mechanism of swift heavy ion (SHI) track
formation in CaF 2. The objective of this study is to shed light on this important topic using a …

A DFTB/MM MD Approach for Solid-State Interfaces: Structural and Dynamical Properties of H2O and NH3 on R-TiO2 (001)

M Saleh, TS Hofer - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2019 - ACS Publications
In this work, the self-consistent charge density functional tight-binding (SCC-DFTB)
approach has been implemented into a recently developed two-dimensional periodic …