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A highly ordered hexagonally close-packed nanochannels array was prepared using the self-ordering phenomena during a two-step anodization process of a high purity aluminium foil. The anodized aluminium oxide, with pore diameters of about 280 nm and interpore distances of about 450 nm was prepared as a suspended membrane of about 15 µm thickness on the aluminium frame to which it belongs. The Al 2 O 3 capillaries were bombarded with 3 keV Ne 6+ ions. The first results unambiguously show the existence of ion guiding observed at 5 • and 7.5 • tilt angles of the capillaries compared to the beam direction. To the best of our knowledge, such ion guiding effects of slow ions through hexagonally ordered nanochannels in alumina has not been reported previously.

The angle-resolved Kr L2,3M4,5M4,5 Auger spectra induced by proton impact ionization were measured at 1, 2.6 and 3.6 MeV proton energies where high-resolution spectroscopy techniques have been applied. The Auger energies and relative line intensities are compared with different earlier experimental data as well as our numerical results which have been obtained within a multiconfigurational Dirac-Fock approach. The alignment parameter 20 of the singly ionized krypton atoms has been extracted from the experimentally accessible anisotropy parameter A2 applying a special method, using the theoretical values of the angular distribution parameter 2 .

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