Dewetting of nickel oxide-films on silicon under swift heavy ion irradiation

Solid-state dewetting of La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3±δ thin films during annealing

“…Once holes are nucleated, the growth is driven by capillary forces arising from the balance of surface and interface energy. [34][35][36][37][38] It was demonstrated that also metal oxides such as Fe 2 O 3 39 and NiO 34 in the form of thin films of 80-100 nm thickness on Si substrates show dewetting. Nucleation occurred on defects created by ion bombardment.…”

X-ray diffraction and photoelectron spectroscopy study of swift heavy ion irradiated Mn/p-Si structure

“…SHI irradiation is an excellent tool for the engineering of interfacial intermixing to modify the interfacial chemistry and physics [20]. There is a high electronic energy loss of the swift heavy ions (100 MeV) in the near surface/interface region.…”

AFM and electronic transport studies of swift heavy ion irradiated Mn/p-Si bilayer structure

“…It is known [16] that swift heavy ion irradiation give rise to a thermal spike phenomenon in which temperature rises very high in a very small time of nano-to picoseconds and quenches to ambient. Such thermal spike phenomenon is known as an excellent tool for the creation of nanostructures [17]. In thermal spike model [14], the energy deposited locally by electronic energy loss in a matter which is quickly shared among the electron gas by electron-electron interactions and then transferred to lattice by electron-phonon coupling.…”