Abstract
When dealing with surface and/or thin film modifications of materials under irradiation by swift heavy ions, special attention should be given to the choice the incident projectile charge state delivered by the accelerator. This charge state should be of the order of the effective charge defined in the electronic energy loss theory. Under some hypothesis, this effective charge is assumed to be equivalent to the mean charge state deduced from measurements of ion charge state distribution. To reach such a charge state, it is necessary to introduce before the irradiated sample a thin stripper foil of carbon, the thickness of which is in between ∼5 and ∼1500μg/cm2 for beam energies ranging between 1 and 44MeV/u, respectively.
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More From: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
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