Swift Heavy Ions for Materials Engineering and Nanostructuring (eBook)

Professor Girijesh Mehta is a Distinguished Honorary Professor of the Department of Physics of the IIT, Kanur, India. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Columbia, USA. He worked as a researcher at Brookhaven USA, Saclay-France and Harwell- U.K. In 1964 he joined the IIT in Kanpur and established a Nuclear Accelerator laboratory. He was Joint Director (1984) and Director (1988-2001) of the Nuclear Science Center (now Inter University Accelerator Center) in New Delhi and Vice Chancellor of the University of Allahabad (2001- 2004). Since 1983 he is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Sciences. Prof. Mehta has received several awards including the Excellence Corporate Award of the National Foundation of Indian Engineers and the Homi Bhabha Award for research in Applied Sciences in 1996.

CH-1: Ion Beams for Materials Engineering –an Overview 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Challenges in Materials Science 1.3 Ion Beam Based / Assisted Processes 1.4 Materials Modification with Ion Beams 1.5 Possibilities of Tailoring the Materials Properties with Ion Beams 1.6 Why Ion beams for Materials Engineering? 1.7 Self Organization 1.8 Creation of New Materials and Futuristic Technologies 1.9 References CH-2: Ion Matter Interaction 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Nuclear and Electronic Energy Loss in Materials 2.3 Cooperative Effects of Nuclear and Electronic Energy Losses 2.4 Applications of Low Energy Ion Impact on Solids 2.5 Applications of high Energy Ion Impact on to Solids 2.6 Applications of Etched Tracks in Solids 2.7 Simulation Efforts to Understand Ion Irradiation Induced Modifications 2.8 Perspectives of Ion –Solid Interaction 2.9 Summary 2.10 References CH-3: Ion Beam Analysis 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) 3.3 Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry (RBS) 3.4 Ion Channeling 3.5 Medium Energy Ion Scattering [MEIS] 3.6 Low-Energy Ion Scattering Spectroscopy (LEIS) 3.7 Elastic Recoil Detection Analysis (ERDA) 3.8 References Appendix: Applications of the PIXE Technique CH -4: Engineering of Materials by Swift Heavy Ion Beam Mixing 4.1 Introduction 4.2 SHI induced IBM for Material Processing 2.1 Adhesion Improvement through IBM 2.2 Metal Silicides and Germanides by IBM 2.3 SHI Induced Mixing in Metal/ Metal Interface 4.3 Interface Modification in Thermodynamically Immiscible Systems 4.3.1 Study on the SHI Induced Interface Modification of Pt/C and Ni/C 4.3.2 SHI Induced IBM Study on the Fe/Bi Interface 4. 4 Conclusion and Future Prospects 4. 5 References CH-5: SHI for Synthesis and Modifications of Nanostructured Materials 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials under the Effect of Electronic Excitations 5.3 Nano Tracks and Ripple Formation by SHI Irradiation 5.4 Modification of Nanoparticles under Dense Electronic Excitation 5.5 Structural evolutions produced by Swift Heavy Ions 5.6 Summary 5.7 References CH -6: Engineering the Properties of Materials with SHI 6.1 Carbonaceous Materials 6.2 Polymers 6.3 High Temperature Superconductors 6.4 Band Gap Engineering in Semiconductors 6.5 Transparent Conducting Oxides 6.6 Transition Metal Oxides 6.7 Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors [DMS] 6.8 Plasmonic Materials 6.9 Quasicrystals 6.10 Magnetic materials 6.11 Random Access Memory (RRAM) 6.12 Material for Hydrogen Production 6.13 References