Atomic mixing in thin film systems by swift heavy ions

Ion beam induced surface and interface engineering

“…Such molten zones may give rise to interdiffusion effects in layered systems. Recently these atomic transport effects due to electronic energy deposition have attracted much interest and indeed it was found that especially in ceramic layer systems like oxides and nitrides, such ion beam mixing effects are present and can be regarded as to be due to transient interdiffusion in the molten ion track [575][576][577][578][579][580][581][582][583][584].…”

Study of swift heavy ion irradiation effect on indium tin oxide coated electrode for the dye-sensitized solar cell application

“…In the present case, there is possibility of increase in oxygen content with ion irradiation. The increase in oxygen content during ion irradiation is reported in several systems [20][21][22]. Although, the oxygen depletion is also reported in various metal oxide films under the high energy ion irradiations [13].…”

PbTe formation by swift heavy ion beam induced interface mixing of Te/PbO bilayer

“…Subsequently several researchers studied the alloy formation in various systems such as insulator/insulator [15,16], metal/semiconductor [17][18][19], metal/metal [20][21][22], etc. using SHI induced ion beam mixing.…”